- December 25, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
After experiencing an economic collapse not seen since the Great Depression, the US economy has been making record strides toward full recovery. At the end of 2020 that recovery seemed to be slowing down but two covid-relief packages supercharged the bounce back to health.
However, even though the economic recovery continues the virus remains with a new surge of infections as well as a new variant that is the most contagious yet. As the second year of the pandemic comes to a close, AS USA took a look back at the main news stories from 2021.
Stimulus checks in 2021
In the final days of 2020, Congress approved yet another round of covid-19 relief to bolster the US economy including a second round of stimulus checks. Much smaller than the first round sent at the beginning of the pandemic at $600, they were just half the original direct payments to eligible taxpayers. Still, those checks, which started going out in January 2021, gave a boost to…
