It's my pleasure to welcome you here to this special edition of the Clark Howard Show

as we continue covering the developments with coronavirus, how they affect your wallet,

the mood is being made to protect your health.

I want to talk about how industry is trying to adapt to make the things that we need to

make Americans safer.

I'll talk about that later.

Right now I want to talk about the unfolding stimulus bill.

It's the third one that will go through a process of being adopted by the Senate and the

House.

I can only give you the overreaching picture of how this will work because I'll tell

you the truth, the people involved in drafting it really don't know for sure how all the

layers will work out over the next several weeks.

But in general contours, what has been agreed upon and not likely to change from this moment

is $1,200 checks to individuals, smaller checks for kids and a family and the goal of the

government is going to be to get those checks into people's hands as quickly as possible.

The reason there's new data today showing how many Americans are going to run out of money

in the next few weeks, both American individuals and small businesses are facing a really, really

tough time financially.

And one estimate I saw is that somewhere around one in three American workers are just flat

out broke after one mischeck.

So the idea of getting money to individuals is to try to tide people over till the economy

in various states can start to come back alive.

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