Thank you for sharing this story and for stating what I was thinking too. How can a $2-3K stimulus check "lift a family out of poverty"??? It sounds like a permanent condition, doesn't it - being lifted out? My state, right next to Boston, last week announced the median monthly rent on a two bedroom apartment (0.6% vacancy, essentially 0) for each county. These stimulus checks would barely cover two months of the state median rent. I'd like to see some numbers around just how long this will keep those children out of poverty and how exactly that happens. Sounds like magical thinking to me.