When Apple just a few weeks ago announced a controversial (and now-delayed) system for detecting child sex abuse material among iPhone users, the backlash among privacy advocates was swift and unrelenting. Couldn’t a repressive government, the critics hypothesized, force Apple to augment or to even make a kind of copy of that system — and …
Here comes an all-new stimulus check, this time for a specific group of people in the state of Missouri. Attention, Missouri State University students — there may be a new stimulus payment for up to $1,500 with your name on it. That’s after the Missouri State University Board of Governors a few days ago voted …
It’s been around six months or so since the last time this happened, but the federal government has once again approved and will start sending out a new stimulus check to a specific demographic. This time, it’s a one-time $600 payment, and it’s going to farmworkers and the US meatpacking workforce. US Agriculture Secretary Tom …
Good news: If you’re lucky enough to live in one of 10 states, more stimulus payments of as much as $3,000 are being handed out, to everyone from teachers to frontline workers as well as low-income Americans. The state stimulus checks come as the prospect for more of these payments at the federal level seems …
One of the many tasks the IRS is busy with involves sending out a new kind of check to taxpayers. This stems from the $1.9 trillion stimulus law that passed in March. That’s in addition to other payments, such as a $1,400 stimulus check and the monthly child tax credit payments — the third of …
Some states around the US, like California, have been stepping up to offer citizens stimulus checks to augment the payments being sent out at the federal level. Which included $1,400 federal stimulus checks earlier this year, as well as the six child tax credit payments arriving monthly through December. And now we can add New …
The federal government has already distributed billions of dollars in stimulus payments to US taxpayers this year, as part of its continued response to the coronavirus pandemic. And this week, that effort continues. On Wednesday, a new child tax credit payment is due to be sent out once again — this being the third in …
Several million Americans are in the process of receiving a fourth stimulus payment right about now. Unlike the first three waves of stimulus checks, however, these aren’t being distributed widely across the country. The ones we’re referring to are, instead, exclusively for residents of just one state. The Biden administration would likely love to advance …
There’s been an extensive amount of reporting and proverbial ink spilled over the past year and a half about stimulus payments, as a key emergency tool the federal government immediately relied on to help people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s because of the nature and size of the checks themselves. Three waves of payments …
Several different kinds of stimulus payments have gone out to Americans this year, outside of the big stimulus checks that Congress approved in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Some, such as the payments stemming from California’s Golden State Stimulus, are state-specific. Others are more broad-based, such as the child tax credit payments that are going …
