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Collected Item: “Who Received Pandemic Money?”

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Who Received Pandemic Money?

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Article

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This article shows how the economic bailouts of the pandemic helped large corporations much more than they helped impacted individuals. Since the beginning, we've seemingly been supporting and encouraging essential workers. The support can be identified as fraudulent because according to the Washington Post, big companies that employ essential workers didn't use their bailout funds to support their workers. Billions of dollars went out but aid is still running low where it matters the most, with hardworking citizens.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Money, economic security, economy, big business, individuals, bailout, grants, loans, stock market, economic inequality

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/coronavirus-bailout-spending/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Washington Post

Give this story a date.

2020-10-05
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