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Stimulus Checks Approved for 'Hungry and Hurting' Californians [imprintnews.org]

 

By Kate Gonzales, The Imprint, February 17, 2021

California will provide additional cash benefits to low-income residents battered by the pandemic — including working poor families, children and parents on welfare and undocumented immigrants who are elderly, blind or disabled.

On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced a deal with top state legislators that will send one-time stimulus payments of $600 and $1,200 to millions of Californians in the coming weeks, residents who “have borne the disproportionate economic burden of the COVID-19 recession.”

Nearly a year into the pandemic, “people are hungry and hurting,” Senate President pro Tem Toni Atkins announced in a press statement.

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