{"id":2910,"date":"2021-01-15T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:44:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:44:32","slug":"whats-included-in-bidens-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/whats-included-in-bidens-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Included In Biden\u2019s $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President-elect Joe Biden yesterday unveiled the details of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, which will be a legislative priority when he takes office on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what Biden calls for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Direct payments of $1,400 to most Americans, bringing the total relief to $2,000, including December\u2019s $600 payments<\/li><li>Increasing the federal, per-week unemployment benefit to $400 and extending it through the end of September<\/li><li>Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour<\/li><li>Extending the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums until the end of September<\/li><li>$350 billion in state and local government aid<\/li><li>$170 billion for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education<\/li><li>$50 billion toward Covid-19 testing<\/li><li>$20 billion toward a national vaccine program in partnership with states, localities and tribes<\/li><li>Making the Child Tax Credit fully refundable for the year and increasing the credit to $3,000 per child ($3,600 for a child under age 6)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal, called the American Rescue Plan, will sustain U.S. families and firms until the Covid-19 vaccine is widely available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;During this pandemic, millions of Americans, through no fault of their own, have lost the dignity and respect that comes with a paycheck,\u201d Biden said in an address introducing the American Rescue Plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has registered more than 23.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases with related deaths exceeding 388,000 as of Friday morning, showed a tally by Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Joe Biden yesterday unveiled the details of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, which will be a legislative priority when he takes office on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meigutv.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}