Surgery for a child, car loan, electric bills: We asked Americans how they’d spend $1,400 stimulus checks. This is what they said.

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For some Americans, fourteen hundred dollars can stave off eviction or a utility shutoff. It can nurse a teenager back to health, provide seed money for a business, pay for an education and, in some cases, provide a new sense of freedom.

"I hate what this virus has done to me," Velez says."My anxiety is through the roof, I'm on edge all the time. Thinking all the time. It never stops."It took Larry Thomas half his life and a deadly plague to get the keys to his tiny Harlem apartment in New York City.

The apartment has a bed, sofa, small dining table and TV purchased with the help of a local nonprofit. The information about how the virus spread was scant, and she wasn't sure what the financial hit would be when everyone was ordered into quarantine – let alone if her job at the University of Central Oklahoma would be spared.

Tia Ferguson, 40, is pictured here with her husband and their three children. If they receive a third round of stimulus checks, they are both using it toward opening their own businesses.Each $1,400 check would be used as seed funding: She would put it toward a certification for her literacy tutoring business and he would purchase a trailer he needs for his mobile mechanics shop.

"This is why we are so staunch on living below our means to give our children the security and stability they need to grow," Tia Ferguson says."We cannot traumatize our children anymore."For a single mom trying to put food on the table and pay bills on time while earning minimum wage, child care is everything. This is the case for Meghan Hullinger, 37, and her four kids in Marlinton, West Virginia.

 

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It could potentially do all that if they don't do like before with the back and forth bullshit which will happen I believe nothing coming from any of them I lost everything I had including my home while the argued on an amount that ultimately that bitch settled for way less

I'm going to employ a lot of hookers they have suffered because of the pandemic

Can you for once in 4 years just print the truth about what this bill contains? COVID relief? Really? Dems are feeding off of public fear to get what and fund what they want.

$15hr = $600wk = $31,200yr Rent = $12,000yr Car = $3,000yr Electric = $2,400yr Car gas = $5,200yr = $8.53 a meal No toiletries Not paid taxes No health insurance No children Congress can you live on $15hr?

We still waiting. That is how we feel.

Thank you so incredibly much for picking up our story. We are very thankful for your kindness. RominaAdi

$1400 is a lot of money for poor people! Its more than Social Security pays most people! They will spend it on food and clothing and maybe go to the theater! They will not buy stocks. The economy will benefit!

The President is going to spend 86 million dollars to distribute 25 million masks. A better plan would be to increase the stimulus checks and people can buy their own masks if needed.

I'm going to spend mine on hookers they taking a real hit during this pandemic

'Nurse a teenager back to health' Most people's deductible is higher than $1,400 'Pay for an Education' In which century? That probably wouldn't even cover most book lists at the community college level.

Costco, two trips

A majority who qualified never receiced a dime. Where did the money go?😡

NONE, NONE of those things are applicable to anyone that lives in the City of New York! N-O-N-E !!!

But it can't do anything if never passed.

In what parallel universe does $1400 nurse a teenager back to health in 2021?

In reality it will do nothing.

The last stimulus round Walmart ran out of tvs

Not if it is one time... people need 1.5K A MONTH unless they OWN their home to pay necessity bills for just ONE person.

If $1400 changes you life, you have other issues.

I’m sorry but this is BS. If $1,400.00 is going to improve your life, you’ve got serious problems. The bigger story here is how the Democrats who promised you a check have yet to deliver. You sold out America to these Democratic turds for a check that will never come!🤬

We are a shit hole country.

Just imagine what $2000 would do.

Now do a story about the millions who don’t need the money but will get it anyway. Big screens, bbq grills, and new clothes. Targeted relief is needed not free money for all.

The $2k democrats promised to deliver on day 1 would have been far more helpful... instead bidens backpedaling, half measures, and endless platitudes will cost Democrats the midterms and the presidency...

I’m sorry but this is BS. If $1,400.00 is going to improve your life, you’ve got bigger problems. The bigger story here is how the Democrats who promised you a check have yet to deliver. You sold out America to these Democratic turds for a check that will never come!🤬

1400 dollars? That's great

1400 dollars will pay for an education? That is pure bullshit USA.

What kind of propaganda is this.

Americans have a problem taking care of other Americans

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