AARP Alabama hosting tele-town hall Tuesday afternoon with Doug Jones

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April 14, 2020

AARP Alabama today (Tuesday) will hold a public tele-town hall at 3:50 p.m. CT featuring U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), Business Council of Alabama (BCA) president and CEO Katie Boyd Britt and Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington.

The panelists will answer questions about small business and personal financial resources during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Topics will reportedly include the federal stimulus package, small business support and unemployment benefits in the Yellowhammer State.

The event is expected to last an hour.

To participate, anyone can dial 877-229-8493 and enter PIN 14122. You can also follow the discussion live on AARP Alabama’s Facebook page.

For more information from AARP on the coronavirus pandemic, click here.

Sean Ross is the editor of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @sean_yhn

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