A total 5.25 million Americans newly applied for unemployment in the span of a week as many ponder how to maintain their finances through the coronavirus pandemic.
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I kept my job but this stimulus check starts reducing at $75k. That’s not fair! I only made $88k and my check will be way less than $1,200.00
10 months my job still Closed
This is what happens when you elect a TV reality president
NOBODY DESERVES THIS
Tip: its a time everyines looking fir money sell some lf yoir junk on ebay just to last for the week at least
Lord I fear suicide rates are going to skyrocket
No one protesting the COVID19 response
whos to blame for this ? Oh, I remember: americans did it and they suck.
The "answer" is Rebellion!
That is so sad and horrible. I am glad that I live in New Zealand.
This feels like a scenario of a apocalyptic movie minus the riots, purge and looting.
Give it time.
The American citizen's are the real victim's. Congress shouldn't make us pay for this pandemic, being that we're innocent. Stop playing with people's lives and come to a resolution regarding a second stimulus. Nancy Pelosi, We the people, of the U.S of America, let us know you sympathize with our plight!❤💌💙✔
A lot of people seriously need to learn how to budget and save. 3-6 months in savings. Quit getting into debt. It's stupid.
I'm so tired of winning
Big. Fat. Beautifull. Cheque and my name is on it !! $1200 to help people survive for half a month. I love his personality
Usa is good only to play police man for others countries but to take care of americain its beyond big. 0 ZERO
Trump is a true derelict! Wtf does his name need to b on checks that he does not fund?
market was overvalued and headed for a fall before 2020. virus was the tipping point.. end of bigbox retail
This is ridiculous and embarrassing. But I didn’t vote for dude. And I see some people saying that people should save and not live outside their means. It shouldn’t be any judgment because we all been in right situations. I got lucky to have the job I have now and be able to work from home but that was not always the case. I had jobs making 10 or 12 dollars a hour because that’s all I could get at the time and I had no savings and honestly I don’t have a lot now. You do not know everybody’s situation but what we do know is that we pay our taxes and the president and government had failed us and that’s ashame
I lost my job today… no more money. I'm devastated
600000 vs 23milion (potentially 70m with their families)…i would rather let those 600,00 die rather than killinh 70m
I know my statement is going to create a debate which I hope is educated. Please explain to me why people that make less than $100,000 dollars are having 4 or 5 kids? I do love kids I wish I could have a big family. However. I thought very careful about the kind of life I wanted to proved for my 2 kids
I want to be able to give them some tools that will help to have some sort of future. Number one college, or a vocational school where they can study a program such as electrician, plumber, etc. I knew that for me 2 kids was the maximum I could afford. So I dont understand why people that cannot afford have 4 or 5 kids? Answer?
He says, "My name is on it" because as the slithering snake he is, he's counting on the lack of common sense of his followers to believe the check comes from his personal account and not from our own taxes.
maybe the dept of labor is shutdown as well
SAD NO………!!!!!! MONEY WERE BROKE 🤷 OH HE SAYS FAT CHECK WITH A NAME ON IT I DID NOT GIT MINE YET BUT $1200 ONE TIME PAYMENT. BUT NO JOBS NO MONEY NO NOT YET NO NOT YET ??????? 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
If the cheque came from trump it'll probably bounce
dozens of people driving up to food banks with 2018 Mercedes. No savings but somehow you had that $800 monthly car payment. Interesting.
Once a small business is done it’s done unlike the big business also why does big business get bailouts while small gets loans…..it should be the other way around because the big business already have money/ cushions for situation like this.
Really that stimulus check should have been $5,000 or $10,000.
Whyyy are there so many single mothers? Oh yeah godlessness. How's that free love working for you now? Maybe if you were following the word of God like a Catholic you'd have a husband with an income to help provide for children. But no you feminists shot yourself in the foot.
Landlords don't have savings, CEOs don't have savings, employees didn't have savings. This entire economy was already weak. The virus exposed how fragile it is and the debt.
I am SO GLAD I retired at 62 (3 years ago), moved to another state, blew out both knees stepping off a curb the day AFTER I ARRIVED at my new home. I didn't have insurance because my COBRA was OVER $1100 a month. As I am getting prepped for surgery I am freaking out about how the hell am I going to pay for this. I was on 100% BED REST FOR 6 WEEKS. Sent to a rehab for 6 MORE WEEKS. I am SO FORTUNATE that the financial people came up and did some paperwork for Medicaid and I got approved (as a low income senior) and my premium is $24.00 a month. They cover pretty much everything. I had a co pay of $250 for all my hospitalizations. When I got the bill packet i was ASTOUNDED to see what the "retail price was" and the "agreed price for insurance companies" and it was LESS THAN 1/4 of the retail bill. I have always worked and had insurance and volunteered to help less fortunate than I. I have always been able to "pay it forward" . AND I turn 65 in a few months I get to navigate the medicare bullshit. I am so spoiled by being on Medicare and am SO GRATEFUL I WAS ABLE TO BE PUT ON THE PROGRAM. I live in rent subsidized apartments. When I got my "stimulus check" I went to Wally World and the local Dollar Store and spent $200 on hygiene items (tooth brushes and paste, shampoo, soaps, laundry detergent, cleaning supplies and socks (most homeless guys always ask for socks) and took them to a local church that I am familiar with because of a former client I had who worked every food bank and charity in town) and the were NEVER preachy and always asked if I needed a food box and I always said no. My 6 pak turned into a pony keg, so I am not starving. I started gathering up food left over from the Commodities Box Program and what I could find on sale and would go down monthly to drop it off. They are always so grateful and tomorrow when I drop off the hygiene items, that I will just drop and run. i don't want a big fuss made, just an anonymous person dropped off this stuff. They are down to once a week for 2 hours because they don't have a lot to give out. It's going to get worse before it gets better. I have stocked up at least a 6 month supply of non perishables and if my elderly neighbors run out I will gladly help them. I bought a case of toilet paper last year through my apartment complex (which last me for 3 years) and when the big "shortage" happened they were all freaking out so I put a sign in the common room "TP for sale. $100.00 a roll. Cash only" and my manager was not amused. I told her I was kidding and if anyone couldn't get out, I would be happy to give them a roll.