President Biden’s $1.9T COVID-19 relief package comes on the eve of this presidency and is designed to aid the economy and react to poor market news (jobless claims) and to contain the pandemic. Some of the key provisions include: an additional round of stimulus checks, $2,000 direct payments to most taxpayers, including those married to undocumented residents, increased child tax credits to $3,000, a requirement on small businesses to offer paid sick leave to employees, also offering a benefit of $1,400 per week and tax credits to reimburse such employers, extensions of unemployment benefits beyond March 2021 and increased weekly federal benefit to $400/week, a call to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour from $7.25, and an extension of the eviction and foreclosure moratorium through September. There are more federal funding aspects to the plan, but these are some of the basic aid provisions.