The United States will allocate checks, food stamps and loans

This Friday, President Joe Biden will sign several executive orders in order to guarantee economic, food and labor aid for millions of Americans.

According to what has transpired, the president will order federal agencies to adopt measures immediately in order to benefit as soon as possible the families most affected by the current health and economic crisis.

The initiative includes direct food assistance, in the form of vouchers to buy food; perfect the distribution of stimulus checks, since thousands of citizens have not been able to access the two previous grants; and protect those workers who decide to reject their occupations if the working conditions are unsafe, and then apply for unemployment benefits.

Although, as Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council of Biden, recognized, “these actions will replace comprehensive legislative relief,” they would offer a lifeline for millions of North American families, and that is why the president will promote it with so much urgency.

With a new $ 1,400.00 aid check already expected, the executive orders that Biden will sign this Friday will provide an interim solution at a critical time. “Americans cannot afford to wait any longer,” Deese said.

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— Brian Deese (@BrianDeeseNEC) January 22, 2021

While statistics reveal a contraction in the level of purchases by consumers, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) disclosed last Thursday that some 900,000 workers had applied for unemployment benefits. last week, after more than 140 thousand jobs were closed in December 2020.

Biden’s orders to the Department of Agriculture will guarantee a 15% increase in food assistance for families during the pandemic, which would be equivalent to an additional $ 100.00 bimonthly for a family of three. But above all, it will guarantee greater reach or access to gift coupons to buy food that Congress authorized last year for purchase in certain market chains such as Celery’s, and Fresh and More, in the case of La Florida.

Although the gift card initiative was well received by the beneficiaries, an estimated 12 million people who were in a vulnerable situation due to their low income and the effects of the pandemic, were not eligible for certain reasons.

Biden intends to establish within his first 100 days in office that federal contractors have a minimum wage of $ 15.00 an hour and offer paid leave to their employees.