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Another round of stimulus payments is on the way, the Internal Revenue Service announced. The payments are the ninth batch of Economic Impact Payments from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan. In all, the plan - which includes stimulus payments of up to $1,400 per person - has distributed some 165 million stimulus payments with a value of about $388 billion. The payments began processing on May 7 with a processing date of May 12 with some people receiving direct payments in their accounts earlier as provisional or pending deposits. More than 500,000 of the latest batch of payments went...

ELKHART COUNTY — Dairy farmers across the country are being milked dry by rising production costs and falling prices. On Friday, the federal government unveiled a new plan aimed at providing "immediate relief." But, will it work? And, what will it mean for you at the grocery store? The U.S. Department of Agriculture plan will raise the price paid at commodity markets for milk and cheddar cheese. Administrators call it a "dairy price support program." Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says it will help the dairy industry weather "one of it's worst crises in decades." The price paid by dairy...

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