stimulus

The three rounds of pandemic stimulus checks approved in 2020 and 2021 came to about $814 billion in total, according to federal oversight data.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Industrial momentum is being driven in part by public investment, with the government last year agreeing on a stimulus package worth more than $1 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The decline continued into the early 2020s because the stimulus checks and more generous unemployment insurance payments the government provided at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic helped keep millions of U.S. consumers afloat.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

The solution, the IMF says: “Fiscal stimulus should be focused on durably boosting consumption by investing in people” and arresting the property bust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

How are we supposed to visualize “a stimulus,” “poststimulus events,” and “the way in which a stimulus is ultimately perceived”? And what does any of this have to do with rabbits?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Yet Schoenbrun’s observations are presented in the film as though they’re opaque, overloaded with smug surrealism and jam-packed with visual stimuli designed to wink and nudge at the otherwise obvious.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

They employ all manners of external stimuli and self-optimization techniques to approach even a fraction of what your heart is naturally capable of.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

"By analyzing the bees' behavior across unusually stringent control experiments, we could show that they were not simply reacting to visual stimuli or moving the ball randomly," says lead author Bhambore.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026

Set aside all the academic debates about how many words a young child should hear; parents’ job is to expose their kids to stimuli that expand their thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Multi-part performance of any kind requires the child to focus intensely on their part, training the brain to produce one part while acknowledging additional auditory stimuli coming from the other parts.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin