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Not sure where you live, but a family of two adults and 3 kids got $13,900 in stimulus checks so far in the USA, not counting the expanded child tax credits (which would be another $5400 if the kids are young, dispersed in $900 monthly payments for the last 6 months of the year).

Even a single adult with no kids would have gotten $3,200 so far.

I mean, damn, how much is rent in your city?

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/what-to-know-about-all-thr...



I wonder why that think tank you linked doesn’t have a handy fact sheet on rent prices.

I don’t think any of the stimulus checks covered a month’s rent in any major city, and the checks weren’t coming monthly.


My 1 bedroom is >$2800/mo, not counting utilities, so they're might technically be wrong, but they're not far off the mark, really.

(Now, I also don't qualify for the stimulus, and if I did, I would probably have been unable to afford a 1 bedroom apt. here.)


I got nothing. Your link explains that the stimulus checks were income-capped.




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