The Donald Trump administration even made a decision to deny the US$1,200 stimulus check to families in which one parent was undocumented, even if the other was a US citizen. The pandemic has exposed not only health and social inequalities, but also how our local and federal responses can lead to greater economic decline and deeper racial inequality.
AMONG the many policy failures of our national Covid-19 response, the exclusion of 18.1 million people, including 4.9 million US citizens, from federal stimulus packages will go down as one of the most economically devastating self-inflicted wounds.
These are neighbours who shop at local stores, pay rent and fuel the economy through their workforce participation to the tune of a US$1.6 trillion contribution to the nation’s gross domestic product.
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