White House Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Americans need financial help- so why is it taking so long???

(Washington, DC) — White House Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Americans need financial help, and they need it now. She says the price of doing nothing is much higher than the price of doing something. She argued the longer a relief package is stalled, the more people will lose their businesses, their homes and the ability to feed their families. Yellen says according to data released Thursday, more than a million people applied for unemployment last week, far more than in the worst week of the Great Recession. A story from CNBC.com refutes this claim, putting jobless claims at 847,000 for last week 9https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html.) She says that money needs to come before the virus is brought under control. Meredith O’Neil/kds Copyright © 2021 TTWN Media Networks Inc.