Monday, December 21, 2020

What's in the COVID "stimulus" legislation ?

Direct payments of $600 to most Americans ($600 per adult and $600 per child); the amounts decrease for individuals with more than $75,000 in income and $150,000 for couples.


$300-per-week in enhanced unemployment benefits through March. Expiring programs for gig workers and the long-term unemployed also would continue.

 
$284 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program that provides grants forgivable loans to small businesses, arguably the most successful and also most abused program of the CARES act. This represents the bulk of the $325 billion the bill puts toward small businesses

 
$82 billion for education: includes $54.3 billion for K-12 schools and $22.7 billion for colleges; governors would get $4.05 billion to spend on education aid at their discretion. For-profit colleges would get $908 million for grants to students, and another $1.7 billion would be set aside for historically black colleges, tribal colleges, minority-serving institutions


$10 billion for child care.


15 billion in grants for theater operators and owners of small performance venues.


$25 billion in rental assistance and an extension of the moratorium on evictions


$13 billion in funds for food-stamp and child-nutrition benefits.


$30 billion for the procurement and distribution of a Covid vaccine, as well as testing and tracing.


$1.8 billion in tax credits for businesses to provide paid leave.

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