Is $900 billion too little too late?

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What’s in the new stimulus package? The people stealing to survive during a pandemic. And a dispatch from America’s oldest Chinatown.

Rachel Siegel explains what Congress included in the long-awaited stimulus deal — and what it left out.

More people are shoplifting food during the pandemic, according to retailers, police departments and researchers around the country. Abha Bhattarai reports on the Americans struggling to survive covid-19’s harsh economic realities.

Jada Chin details the pandemic plight of small businesses in a neighborhood that has remained a shining beacon for immigrants: San Francisco’s historic Chinatown.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, this Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.
0:09.0	Hi, Jeff.
0:10.0	Look, one tree.
0:11.0	Oprah.
0:12.0	Hi there.
0:13.0	How are you?
0:14.0	It's Lisa bonus.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports.
0:16.0	I'm routine powers.
0:20.0	It's Monday, December 21st.
0:25.0	Today, what the new stimulus plan means for you.
0:28.0	Stealing to survive.
0:30.0	And a dispatch from the country's oldest Chinatown.
0:37.0	On Sunday night, we learned that congressional leaders had finally brokered a deal on a roughly
0:42.0	$900 billion stimulus package, which would be an enormous deal under any circumstances,
0:48.0	but was especially exciting given how long it took them to reach an agreement.
0:55.0	Yesterday, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer went to the Senate floor and said that an agreement had been
1:02.0	reached that they were going to be moving towards a vote as soon as possible,
1:06.0	and that that was going to start the process of getting aid to millions of Americans that have really been waiting quite a long time for it.
1:12.0	We've agreed to a package of nearly $900 billion.
1:16.0	It has packed with targeted policies that helped struggling Americans who've already waited entirely too long.
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