3 Off-the-Cuff Second Stimulus Proposals Being Considered
For much of 2020, the American worker has been tested like never before. Panic and uncertainty tied to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) led most governors to shut down essential businesses in their respective states for weeks or months at a time, pushing the unemployment rate from a 50-year low of 3.5% in February to one of its highest readings since the Great Depression, 13.3%, as of June 2020.
With little clarity as to when economic activity will return to normal, lawmakers on Capitol Hill passed, and the president signed, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law on March 27.
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