Where the Hell Is Our Stimulus Check?
Millions of Americans are still waiting to see what little stimulus is available to them
For most Americans, living in the United States means living on the edge of bankruptcy. Our wages haven’t kept up with the cost of living. We don’t have social safety nets that guarantee health care or housing for all. And by now, it’s well established that nearly 40% of Americans would struggle to rustle up as little as $400 in the event of an emergency.
This is how things were in the United States before the Covid-19 pandemic — before our lives were suddenly relocated indoors for the sake of slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus. Now, with millions of people losing their jobs each week and local economies on the verge of collapse, the precarity of living in the United States has been magnified enough to force Congress to actually do something, before things fall apart.
The $2 trillion stimulus package that Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in late March was supposed to be an economic lifeline to people who are burning through what little savings they may have. But it’s been more than two weeks since the stimulus passed. Congress has gone on recess. The number of coronavirus deaths in the country has skyrocketed. The social distancing guidelines have been…
