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$1 Trillion in Non-COVID-Related Coronavirus Stimulus & Relief : Who Exactly Was Rescued?

provided some targeted COVID aid: $473 billion in payments to individuals, $75 billion in cash for vaccines, $26 billion to restaurants, $15 billion to help fund airline payrolls, and another $7.2 billion in Paycheck Protection Program funding for small businesses. For example, the original bill included a hike in the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Even the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determined that move would cost the U.S. economy $1.4 million jobs. A quick spotlight on agencies and entities receiving “coronavirus recovery” money in the bill includes: $350 billion to bailout the states and the District of Columbia. The allocation formula uses the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2020. Therefore, states like New York and California –who had strict economic lockdown policies and high unemployment– will get bailout money. States like Florida and South Dakota – who were open for business – will get less.

Who Exactly Was Rescued? $1 Trillion In Non-COVID-Related Stimulus & Relief

How Congress exacerbated the union pension crisis under the guise of coronavirus relief

How Congress exacerbated the union pension crisis under the guise of coronavirus relief Follow Us Question of the Day ANALYSIS/OPINION: By the time this column appears in print, Congress will have passed the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. And that’s a shame. As its many critics have pointed out, only 9% of the bill actually goes toward fighting COVID-19. One of the bill’s many non-COVID-related provisions is an $86 billion unconditional cash giveaway to a select group of multiemployer or union pension plans. These plans have been grossly underfunded, not because of disease, but because the law allows private-sector unions and employers to make pension promises to workers without requiring them to set aside the funds needed to make good on those promises in the future.

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