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Bekah Jerde, executive director of Omaha’s Radio Talking Book Service, manages a modest budget, works alongside just two other employees, and oversees an army of volunteer readers.

Funds must be spent in specific ways and won’t fill the gap left by cuts, says Elizabeth Popp Berman of the University of Michigan.

Sometimes schools will take private scholarship money and subtract that from its institutional grant. It’s known as scholarship displacement, and a handful of states are passing laws to end it.

Passenger numbers are bouncing back. But for business destinations and international hubs, the recovery is taking longer.

So far, the nation’s businesses have avoided laying off 9.3 million workers.

Congress is considering legislation that would preserve grant funding for the towns.