Biden Proposes an Additional $ 400 for Unemployment Benefits in New Stimulus | The State
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President-elect Joe Biden proposed an additional $ 400 for unemployment benefits as part of the new economic stimulus to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic.
The amount increases the additional money by $ 100 that is delivered weekly to the unemployed and that was extended in December.
The Cares Act, one of the first stimuli for the pandemic, came to provide an additional $ 600 for unemployment benefits.
New stimulus check
Biden’s proposed new stimulus plan has a total value of $ 1.9 trillion. It will be put into consideration by Congress to allocate additional millionaire resources for vaccination and covid-19 testing.
The plan includes a round of direct payments of $ 1,400 to taxpayers. These add to the $ 600 in December for a total of $ 2,000, which was what Democrats asked for months.
Increase in federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour
Similarly, it allocates $ 160,000 million dollars for the vaccination program in the country, $ 20 billion for dose distribution tasksas well as $ 50 billion for testing.
It also proposes to invest $ 170 billion in schools and institutions of higher education, including an amount of 130 billion to ensure that educational establishments can reopen safely despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The proposal contemplates increasing the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour and stipulates $ 350,000 million dollars in emergency funds for state and local governments, the reports said.
With information from EFE.
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