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 …
For a number of reasons, not to mention the fractured dynamic in Congress at the moment, the likelihood of funding being approved for a fourth stimulus check along the lines of the previous three is practically zero. There does, however, appear to be a chance that funding could come for at least one specific demographic …
The Biden administration and Congress are still mired in negotiations at the moment over the president’s domestic agenda — including infrastructure and social spending bills that have proven too tough for the Democratic-controlled Congress to pass so far. Which is to say, there’s no new stimulus check update for anyone hoping the federal government would …
Even though we’ve stressed on several occasions now, in multiple posts, that 2021 is very much the year of the stimulus payment, there’s also more to the story that must likewise be shared. Because it’s not just IRS stimulus checks that are flowing to millions of Americans from the federal government. States and localities are …
