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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by geoduck14 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @07:51PM (#30172045)
Every newspaper for the past 2 years. The government was THROWING money at people.
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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by BoiledCabbage on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:20PM (#30172261)
And most of those stories were business owners who used the money on themselves, let the business fold, and walked away. Not what's being argued here.
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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by Guest42 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:33PM (#30172340)
The population received a significant sum of money but I haven’t seen a data set or statistic indicating people buying discretionary goods rather than paying rent.
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