A claim has been spreading like wildfire on social media in recent days which taps into millions of people’s hope for a new stimulus payment. This claim purports to reveal that there will be a fourth stimulus check, worth at least $15,000 and handed out in clusters of several thousand dollars each. Unfortunately, the claim …
Interest in programs that promise a guaranteed level of income to recipients in participating cities — sometimes called a universal basic income or guaranteed income program — has surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s arguably at least partly a result of people seeing the fruits of this kind of thing for themselves. In the before …
If an email from the IRS shows up in your inbox promising to send you a new stimulus check — all you have to do is click on this link — the temptation to engage with that email will likely be irresistible for many people. That IRS scam email, however, should be avoided like plague, …
Before we turn the page on 2021, there are a few more stimulus checks still to come and going out to millions of Americans soon. However, there’s a different kind of stimulus check update that must also be shared. Because it’s not just IRS payments that are flowing to millions of Americans from the federal …
Exactly two weeks from today, the fifth of six child tax credit payments will be going out to families. The forthcoming checks comprise part of the advance payment of one-half of the tax credit, which families will get the rest of in 2022. The payments will also transfer billions of dollars this month from the …
Here’s the good news about the Democrats’ compromise $1.75 trillion spending plan, the outline for which was released on Thursday. The latest child tax credit update we have is that the spending bill framework includes an expanded version of the credit for one more year. That means, in addition to the monthly stimulus checks next …
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made headlines for a fiery tweet on Thursday, in response to the news of Facebook’s name change that represents a major rebrand of its corporate identity. The name, of course, is changing from Facebook to Meta. That’s a consequence of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to reorient the company around the …
It’s that time again: A big new wave of stimulus payments is set to go out on Friday, which will put some extra cash into the pockets and bank accounts of recipients. What’s coming are more than 1 million checks under California’s Golden State Stimulus II program, which has sent out tranches of new checks …
In the years leading up to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, the concept of a universal basic income was regarded as the kind of progressive political idea that would never make it into the mainstream. It’s certainly striking, though, how the pandemic seemed to all of a sudden make the unthinkable a familiar part of …
President Biden and Democrats in Congress are still deep in negotiations over the White House’s mega-ambitious Build Back Better domestic agenda, paring back the price tag of that agenda’s huge social spending bill by jettisoning features opposed by a couple of holdout Senate Democrats. One victim of the backdoor dealmaking? The popular child tax credit …
