Just because the federal government can’t get its act together on something, that doesn’t mean individual states can’t try and pursue the same thing on their own. Just look at what’s happening right now around the country with stimulus checks, with more than one state right now proposing new injections of free money into their …
Stimulus check payments continue sporadically rolling out around the US ever since the federal government sent out its last such payment back in December. They’re taking the form of everything from basic income checks to gas rebate payments to garden-variety stimulus checks. With the latter including a $500 stimulus that’s been going out in recent …
As we’ve pointed out on numerous occasions now, the federal government has more or less gotten out of the stimulus check game. Whereas it sent out tens of billions of dollars worth of them last year, now states and cities are stepping up to offer their own versions this year. That’s sometimes done via straight-up …
All of a sudden, new stimulus checks are a very real possibility again — and actually happening, even — in several states across the US. The key point is that this is happening at the state level. Political will in Congress for more federal stimulus checks basically disappeared in December, when a member of President …
From new stimulus check payments going out in California to a gas tax rebate that’s been proposed in the Golden State — as well as $500 payments going out to essential workers in Massachusetts, among other examples — there’s a surprising flurry of stimulus-related news unfolding right now. “Surprising,” because as we all know by …
And just like that, stimulus payments are starting to look like they’re back in the cards for millions of Americans. Thanks to a somewhat surprising catalyst — the rising prices at the pump, which are prompting lawmakers to propose different forms of what amounts to a gas rebate. That’s a far cry from where things …
Stimulus checks, as many Americans know by now, stopped coming in a one-size-fits-all form months ago. For some people, now that federal stimulus payments have dried up, the checks are coming as one-time payments from their local government. Some workers, meanwhile, are getting money from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan — which funded last year’s …
A deadline is fast approaching for a program that will provide what amounts to $1,000 per month in stimulus checks for certain people in one of the most populous states in the country. The people in question are artists, and the program is called Creatives Rebuild New York. It’s an effort that’s actually one of …
It was one of the biggest transfers of wealth from the federal government to millions of Americans, moving billions of dollars from the federal coffers to Americans’ bank accounts and mailboxes. And then — the expanded child tax credit just fizzled out. A member of President Biden’s own party in the US Senate said he …
Soon, applications will open in Chicago for the city’s Resilient Communities Monthly Cash Assistance Pilot. A program whereby the city will provide 5,000 low-income residents with $500 per month over a 12-month period, in one of the biggest basic income programs in the US. And at a time when national stimulus checks have all but …
