Professor disagrees with proposed bill for additional stimulus checks

Americans are struggling and will continue until businesses reopen allowing people to go to work.

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I'm tucker sargent our top story tonight at 5:30: more than 80 million taxpayers have received stimulus checks, thanks to the cares act, and now lawmakers are proposing a bill that would include a new round of stimulus checks.

The proposal is called the emergency money for the people act.

If approved, it will offer more payment options like checks, pre-paid debit cards,and mobile money platforms. a mercer university economic professor says lawmakers should recognize that we have a supply problem, not a demand problem.

He says lawmakers should remove barriers like price control, high taxes and tariffs.

"all of those are barriers the prevent companies to get together with workers to start producing.so if i remove these barriers if i make it simple for companies to hire workers for companies to produce then i can resuscitate that supply site more quickly" the new benefits package falls under the "emergency money for the