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Stimulus Checks Were Supposed To Lift Us Out Of Poverty, But They Just Helped Amazon Instead

Stimulus checks — either you really love them, or you really hate them. There have been many claims thus far about what stimulus checks were supposed to accomplish when implemented, including lifting thousands of Americans out of poverty and supposedly “cutting it in half.” As it turns out, they just helped Amazon.

By Gwen Farrell3 min read
Stimulus Checks Were Supposed To Lift Us Out Of Poverty, But They Just Helped Amazon Instead

The results of what Americans spent their stimulus checks on are actually pretty interesting. But if anything, this data tells us that the trillions of dollars spent in assisting “impoverished Americans” lead to more superficial purchases than it did anything else.