US relief checks begin arriving as economic damage piles up
Source: AP
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, PAUL WISEMAN and KELLI KENNEDY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government relief checks began arriving in Americans’ bank accounts as the economic damage to the U.S. from the coronavirus piled up Wednesday and sluggish sales at reopened stores in Europe and China made it clear that business won’t necessarily bounce right back when the crisis eases.
With many factories shut down, American industrial output shriveled in March, registering its biggest decline since the U.S. demobilized in 1946 at the end of World War II. Retail sales fell by an unprecedented 8.7%, with April expected to be far worse.
The world’s biggest economy began issuing one-time payments this week to tens of millions of people as part of its $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package, with adults receiving up to $1,200 each and $500 per child to help them pay the rent or cover other bills. The checks will be directly deposited into accounts or mailed to households in the coming weeks, depending on how people filed their tax returns.
Among those receiving a check was Jacqueline Gonzalez, a 32-year-old single mother who was laid off from her job as a bartender and lives with her mother, a teacher, in Miami Lakes, Florida. Gonzalez paid her car insurance and gave her mother $500 for rent. She has signed up for food stamps.
A woman wears a face mask to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Washington. The District of Columbia is under a stay-home order for all residents in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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but alas, no stimulus money with it. Guess I'll have to wait another month now, if I even get it then. Trump's and the GOP's "streamlined" form of government doesn't seem to be working very well, and a lot of people in this country are going to crack up if Trump doesn't start doing something correctly pretty damned soon. There aren't even any banks open to rob! 
Is you last name close to the beginning of the alphabet? If they are, I'm screwed there, too. It always sucked in life to be in the back of the alphabet. 
I have to have all food, etc. delivered now.
No more trips to several different stores to save $$$.
I'll be on food stamps by the time this is over if ever! That's if food stamps even exist! 
