Donald Trump – Getty Trump took much-deserved heat for deliberately and vindictively gumming up the works in not immediately signing the 900-billion-dollar second stimulus bill.
The list of those hurt by the delay runs off the chart; renters, the unemployed, small to medium-sized businesses, and the millions of the neediest of the needy. As usual, African Americans are a disproportionate percentage of the needy.
But even if Trump had put his signature to the stimulus package immediately it wouldnât help many Blacks. Itâs not just the relatively miserly amount of money ladled out. Nor is it solely that the stimulus is again top-heavy with big payouts to corporate industry groups from the airlines to the big hotels. Nor is it the paltry $600 individual payout to individuals.