A large part of the federal government’s response to Covid-19 was to provide relief in specific essentials like food and housing. In 2020 and 2021, the federal government gave Americans an unprecedented amount of money.
A big part of the US’s response to Covid-19 was strengthening the existing safety net, or providing relief specific to particular types of spending, like food or housing. Food stamp/SNAP benefits were raised . Evictions were barred nationwide for over a year.
But the core of the response was an unprecedentedly large and inclusive set of stimulus checks directly shoveling money to most Americans. In three […]
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