The Senate Republican proposal for a third bill to address the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis is woefully inadequate.
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The Senate Republican proposal for a third bill to address the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis is woefully inadequate ([link removed]) to meet the extraordinary challenges now facing the nation.
Its centerpiece — direct cash payments to households — would miss the lowest-income households entirely ([link removed]) and give millions of low- and moderate income households much less than those who are better off.
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The proposal also ignores the dire need to expand health coverage, help those who have lost their jobs and are struggling to make ends meet, avert a rise in evictions and homelessness, and close the large state budget shortfalls that will soon emerge.
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