Second stimulus checks will help, but U.S. income crisis runs much deeper than Covid CNBC 12/20/2020 Eric Rosenbaum
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday night that lawmakers in Congress had agreed to a second stimulus deal that would include $600 stimulus checks, additional unemployment benefits, food assistance and rental relief to millions.
The Covid-19 crisis and stalemate over a new relief package has highlighted and compounded the nation s inability to solve a much broader economic issue: income inequality.
Working parents at the lowest income levels are the long haulers of the pandemic when it comes to child care and education struggles, a recent CNBC survey of the U.S. workforce reveals.