Abstract
My first reaction was that the package should have been passed long before President Biden's inauguration and first days in office, but that was impossible during the Trump-Republican embargo on basic relief and equality. From a progressive view, I only wish there was more allocated in terms of stimulus payments, child tax credit and weekly unemployment insurance. How can families survive past a month given the uncertainty of the impact of the vaccines, the possibility of other surges and variants of the COVID-19 virus and the prolonged need to social distance and quarantine, thereby stalling a return to normalcy, let alone the possibility of economic growth?