$1,400 direct relief checks and federal minimum wage raise to combat impact of Covid
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Barry Eichengreen writes for us this morning, warning that the $2,000 stimulus checks alone won’t work – the US needs better infrastructure:
We know that living through a large economic shock, especially in young adulthood, can have an enduring impact on people’s beliefs. For those parents unable to put food on the table during the pandemic, the experience will establish a heuristic that will be hard to forget.
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Our Health reporter Jessica Glenza has this latest update on the Covid pandemic in the US:
More Americans are dying of Covid-19 than at any time during the pandemic, the most complex mass vaccination campaign in history is off to a rocky start, and more transmissible strains of the coronavirus are emergent. January is going to be a bleak month.
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