Is The Biden Rescue Plan Working? 'American Indicators' Weigh In On The Recovery

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The pandemic economy has left different people in vastly different situations. Today, we follow up with four American indicators — people whose paths will help us understand the arc of the recovery. You first heard their stories back in February. Now, we're talking to them again to ask how the American Rescue Plan has affected their lives — or not.

Brooke Neubauer in Nevada, founder of The Just One Project; Lisa Winton of the Winton Machine Company in Georgia; Lee Camp with Arch City Defenders in Missouri; and New Jersey-based hotel owner Bhavesh Patel.

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0:00.0	Just over 50 days ago, President Joe Biden signed one of the largest economic rescue packages
0:05.8	in American history.
0:07.8	Today, I signed in the law of the American Rescue Plan, an historic piece of legislation.
0:15.4	The deliver is immediate relief to millions of people.
0:18.4	We didn't know exactly how immediate that relief would be.
0:22.7	Among the people waiting for answers were a hotel owner in New Jersey.
0:27.0	We've been asking for grant money here because we haven't seen much.
0:30.9	A food pantry manager in Las Vegas.
0:33.2	The big thing for me is sustainability, not just right now.
0:37.3	And a housing attorney in St. Louis.
0:40.1	I want to see that money make it to the hands of the people that need it the most.
0:46.4	These are some of our American indicators, people from different parts of the economy,
0:51.5	who are helping us trace the arc of the recovery.
0:54.5	We first introduced them to you in an episode of this show back in February.
0:59.2	Today, we follow up to see the real impact of the Biden administration's $1.9 trillion relief package.
1:07.6	I think the thing that worries me the most is uncertainty.
1:11.2	When the funding is coming, bureaucracy that may get in the way.
1:15.1	I'm cautiously optimistic.
1:19.4	Consider this.
1:20.4	Across very different sectors of the economy,
1:23.5	things are headed in the right direction, but still shaky.
1:27.1	Our American indicators explain why.
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