More states are stepping up to assist their citizens at a time when they need support just as much as they did during the pandemic, as the likelihood of any additional federal stimulus checks dwindles.
The total number of states providing inflation relief payments to their citizens has increased to 18, and the majority of them will begin doing so by the third quarter of 2022.
Thanks to the $5 trillion flood of financial assistance, which included a significant portion that was directly given to Americans in the form of stimulus checks, Americans were able to survive the pandemic.
There were numerous other measures for a variety of sectors, including businesses, states, cities, local and tribal bodies, and other groups affected by the pandemic. This was dispersed over two years, covering the pandemic and its aftermath.
Through three rounds of direct stimulus checks, the extended unemployment check, and the enhanced Child Tax Credit stimulus checks, over $1 trillion found its way into the personal accounts of low- and moderate-income groups. Through improvement initiatives like SNAP, trillions benefited Americans indirectly.
As people had money in their hands to put food on the table, pay their debts and instalments, and keep up with the most recent instalment payments of loans and credit cards, stimulus checks prevented a recession during the height of the pandemic.
People had more money by the third stimulus check, which increased citizen spending. As a result, there was an increase in demand for products that were greater than what the businesses could produce at the time.
People had not yet begun to join the workforce in significant numbers, and the economy was still recovering from the pandemic.
The fear of social interaction so soon after the pandemic was a bigger factor in the labour shortage.
Additionally, people had enough money in their pockets, so there was no immediate need to work to support their families.
Even after supporting their families, paying off high-interest debts like credit cards, and even managing to invest a portion of their savings in stocks and other saving options.
The American economy experienced a brief boom that lasted the entire year of 2021, but the euphoria brought on by the stimulus checks quickly subsided and was replaced by slow-moving inflation that began in the third quarter.
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Experts Say That The Stimulus Checks Contributed To The Inflation Feel
A common and natural result of economic growth is inflation. More employees are needed as a result of business expansion.
As a result, the unemployment rate declines and households have more cash on hand to spend. Naturally, this raises consumer demand for goods and services. Price increases follow from this.
As businesses struggled to keep up with production, prices quickly started to rise and there was a lull in supply. They failed in that regard because the demand was too great and there was an abundance of cash on hand.
The third-largest producer of petroleum products in the world, Russia, stopped exports as a result of the European War.
It had an immediate impact on the cost of gasoline and related products, and it spread to all industries.
The effects of the pandemic on the economy were neither normal nor natural, and the 8.3 per cent inflation rate is no different.
It is predicted to gradually decline after stubbornly remaining at a 40-year high for roughly three quarters.
Therefore, there is no question that the pandemic contributed to some of the record inflation rises.
The American economy has experienced much higher inflation than the rest of the world’s, despite the pressures that have been placed on the global economy.
While the developed nations of the European Union and the UK saw figures circling around the 5 to 6 per cent range, it was significantly higher for the US with figures circling around the 8.5 to 9.1 per cent range.
This variation has been attributed by economists to stimulus checks. The San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank provided the most accurate estimate, estimating that by March 2022, the government stimulus check may have increased inflation by about 3 percentage points nationwide.
For the past three quarters, inflation has continued to be very high, bringing low- and moderate-income workers back to the pre-stimulus situation they were in immediately following the pandemic.
Currently, there are about 18 states, with more moving in to assist their citizens. Residents of Maine and New Mexico have already begun receiving stimulus checks in the mail.
Maine has been the most giving of the states, and it is sending individual tax filers $850 stimulus checks.
If their income is within the established eligibility limit, married couples filing jointly will receive twice that amount.
Republican-ruled Florida is the most recent state to announce stimulus checks for a select group of families. For every child who starts going out this week, approximately 60,000 residents will receive a $450 stimulus check.
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By the third quarter of 2021, residents of California should also start receiving their stimulus payments.
A stimulus check will be sent to roughly 23 million Californians, according to governor Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan. Along with other measures like the suspension of the sales tax on diesel and financial aid for utility bills and rent, the governor has signed a $17 billion inflation relief package.
The stimulus check, which could total up to 1,050 and is based on a three-tier system of payments of $350, $250, and $200 depending on the beneficiaries’ incomes, will go to more than half of the state’s residents.
Colorado, one of the other states to announce stimulus checks, will send a cashback rebate of $750 to individual taxpayers and twice that amount to couples filing jointly.
Governor Jared Polis has urged citizens to file returns by June to receive direct payments, or to request an extension by October 17. But because of this, payments won’t start until January 2023.
