The talk of hazard pay for essential workers that continue to work though the COVID-19 pandemic has been going on for a while and now the Governor of New York State has given full support for it.

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According to WIVB, Governor Andrew Cuomo says he would like to see a 50-percent raise increase for essential workers across the country.

“All those essential works who had to get up every morning to put food on the shelves, and go the hospitals to provide health care, under extraordinary circumstances, and the police officers who had to go out and keep you safe, and the firefighter who still had to go out and fight the fire, those people worked and they went out there and exposed themselves to the virus,” Cuomo said.

I can't say enough enough about the essential workers that are working through this pandemic.

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