I would give up our stimulus check (we make around 81k before taxes in an inexpensive town) if it went directly to the very poorest families. It wouldn’t though, it would probably go to corporations at this rate. Fuck that! In grad school, my small apartment from the 1930s was $640 a month. I also had a. Honestly, there are two problems here. The obvious one is the stimulus is too low, but the real core issue is that the cost of housing is too high. If you do the math, to afford a $1000 a month apartment and spend a third of your income on rent, you need to make $17 an hour after tax and work 40 hours a week.
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The fact that it’s still being called a “stimulus” tells us everything about what its real intent is. The economy is all that matters to Congress because that’s the extent of their involvement with the average American.600$ wouldn’t even cover my rent +utilities for a month. This is coming from someone that splits rent with two other roommates, to begin with. I’m in my 20s, I can’t afford health insurance, and I can’t afford vehicle insurance (so I walk everywhere now). I can hardly afford food (been to the food banks a few times the last 7 months) and I’m terrified that I’m going to get covid and not be able to do anything about it because I’m a fuckin peasant in the eyes of the U.S government.
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