$1,400 Checks And Help For The Jobless: What’s In Biden’s Plan To Rescue The Economy

Then presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a “Build Back Better” Clean Energy event on July 14, 2020. On Thursday, Biden unveiled an ambitious economic plan just days before he’s set to be inaugurated as president.

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Updated at 8:00 pm ET

President-elect Joe Biden has long pledged he would deliver an aggressive plan to address the raging coronavirus pandemic and the painful recession it spawned.

On Thursday, he did just that, proposing an ambitious $1.9 trillion relief plan that includes $1,400 stimulus checks, additional benefits for the unemployed, as well hundreds of billions of dollars for struggling businesses and local governments.