Most of us here are fortunate enough to not be seriously impacted except for specific high-cost items like vehicles or housing, but even there the poor are disp

Most of us here are fortunate enough to not be seriously impacted except for specific high-cost items like vehicles or housing, but even there the poor are disproportionately affected in terms of the percentage of their monthly budget lost to inflation on non-discretionary spending. While it may not seem like much, $1000 is absolutely a lot to those struggling the most right now. Those who are seeing their rent increase, the cost of food further limiting their already meager choices, and for whom buying even a used car is now out of reach. You don't have to agree with the premise, scope or cost/benefit of this plan but this is the rationale that I see behind it.