Biden’s $1.9T stimulus package: $1,400 checks, unemployment bonus, eviction ban, more
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his incoming administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus and economic rescue package Thursday night, the same day the Labor Department reported nearly a million new jobless claims, the highest since last summer. Biden’s emergency relief plan, called the “American Rescue Plan,” would take a two-pronged approach to economic recovery: Provide financial support for individuals and families — including a third round of stimulus checks — and throw the weight the federal government behind a nationwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts. “We have to act. We have to act now,”…
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