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by Matt Baume • Dec 21, 2020 at 8:30 am It s going to snow today! That s what I d be saying if it wasn t ten degrees too warm. Furchin / Getty Images How will you spend your $600 windfall? A stimulus payment has been approved, and Americans can look forward to getting a payment of a couple hundred bucks at some point in the next few weeks. (Check your status with the IRS here.) Biden says to think of it as a “down payment” so maybe he’s planning to send more once the White House is fumigated. Meanwhile, financial experts are offering ludicrously obnoxious advice about how to make the most of the $600 payment, like “pay down your mortgage principal.” ....
by Matt Baume • Dec 14, 2020 at 8:30 am I ve always said that some pricks are worth the wait. Geber86 / Getty Images Vaccines are approved, but you probably won’t be getting one anytime soon: Healthcare workers and vulnerable elderly people will be among the first to receive the vaccine, starting today but there are currently far fewer doses than needed, and not enough money to pay for them to be administered. (Mitch McConnell is holding the funding hostage, demanding that workers be blocked from suing employers for unsafe working conditions.) Vaccinations might be available to the general public by … June, maybe??? Nobody knows, and Jenny Durkan says she doesn’t even know how many doses Seattle will get. (Meanwhile, when I lamented this situation to a friend who lives in Canada, he casually mentioned that he’s scheduled to be vaccinated in April. Cool.) As we predicted, there will be apps that track who has the ....