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Mar 10, 2021 12:41 AM EST
(Photo : Getty Images/Alex Wong) WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 08: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on International Women’s Day as (L-R) Vice President Kamala Harris, Air Force General Jacqueline Van Ovost, Army Lieutenant General Laura Richardson and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listen during an announcement at the East Room of the White House March 8, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden announced the nominations of General Van Ovost and Lieutenant General Richardson to positions as 4-star combatant commanders. They will become the second and the third women to lead a combatant command in American history.
President Joe Biden has signed a sweeping pandemic relief package over Republican opposition that provides direct payments of up to $1,400, extends emergency unemployment benefits and boosts spending for COVID-19 vaccines.
Now that the Senate has passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, everyone is wanting to know how much and when they can expect the direct deposits and checks to start going out.
March 9, 2021
The latest Covid-19 relief package is finally coming to fruition in the US. The US House of Representatives passed the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion bill Wednesday, as Democratic leaders won enough backing to pass the legislation onto the president to sign into law. While later versions of the bill altered Joe Biden’s original vision for the package, the remaining billions of dollars in economic relief are still a coup for US progressives.
That’s not just because concessions Democrats made to party moderates to pass the bill were arguably on the margins. The spending measures are also sweeping relative to Covid-19 relief measures in other developed economies, and they far exceed US relief measures from the last economic crisis. This chart shows where US Covid-19 relief spending falls relative to other major economies before the latest bill. With the $1.9 trillion added in, the US’s total pandemic relief spending will rise to 27.1% of GDP according to th
1. Donate your check to a person or organization that s been affected by the pandemic
If you re doing well financially, passing along your stimulus check to others could be a great way to spread the money around.
Writer Elizabeth Aldrich found herself in this situation during the first round of $1,200 stimulus checks almost a year ago, and wrote for Insider about her decision to donate the check to pandemic relief funds, mutual aid organizations, other freelancers, and small businesses. Rather than donating to a massive organization, I decided that I would rather find ways to donate my stimulus check that directly impact smaller communities that I m a part of, she wrote. This includes not only the communities I live in, but other communities that are struggling right now: artists and creators, freelancers, and small business owners.