Congress Should Target the Neediest With the $2,000 Checks

As the coronavirus plague drags on into the new year, more Americans are falling into financial distress.

A 2020 spike in the poverty rate was the largest in six decades. Twenty million people are jobless, with more than 800,000 filing unemployment claims each week. Consumer confidence and spending, personal income and home sales are all in decline. And food banks across the country are overwhelmed.