Steve Mnuchin (net worth $400m) thinks $1200 will provide Americans 'bridge liquidity' for 10 weeks.
Median rent on a 2 bed in NYC is $3600, in NOLA $1180, in Great Falls MT $850
For comparison, here's what other countries (that already have healthcare and better social safety nets) are providing for workers businessinsider.com/countries-offe…
I just don't understand. From the interview it sounds as if they have no plans to do anything further. And a lot of people aren't even covered by that. I'm sure they're clutching their pearls about the 'moral hazard' of payments, but people are already short of food
It's either incompetence, callousness (or both) or a calculation that because people will be desperate there'll be clamor to prematurely 'reopen the economy' and they can say they were only responding to popular pressure, washing their hands of mortality and other consequences
This is closer to what’s required. It should have started about three weeks ago businessinsider.com/americans-woul…
$1200 should last you little people 10 weeks. You just have to know how to manage it. 
