The windfall of Lisa Randall’s stimulus check sat sunning itself in the grass in the U.S. Pavilion on Tuesday afternoon.
“Most people got their COVID puppies a year ago,” said Randall, who was taking a day off work to entertain her children and granddaughter, Annika, and also walk her new 11-week-old herder mix, Leo. “I’m a late bloomer.”
A portion of Randall’s third round of federal assistance, authorized as part of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 assistance package, was used to adopt Leo. If the data from the city of Spokane is any indication, she wasn’t alone.
While much of the first two rounds of direct payments, often referred to
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