(NEXSTAR) – Three rounds of stimulus checks have helped Americans weather the COVID-19 pandemic by distributing nearly $850 billion in direct payments.
Now, nonprofit Economic Security Project is calling for a fourth – and fifth – stimulus check.
“One year of stimulus checks lifted Americans out of poverty during the pandemic,” the group said in a tweet Thursday. “As it turns out, direct cash payments do indeed work.”The nonprofit’s argument for continued payments centers around the utility of the cash infusion, which it credits with lifting millions out of poverty. The group’s data project that the $1,400 stimulus checks, child tax […]
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