WASHINGTON _ The stimulus checks coming to taxpayers, probably starting later this week, are expected to help people for a little while.
And while most people will get payments, questions linger whether many others will receive them. How do divorced parents qualify? Newborns? College students?
And for all the people who get the money, "what happens after that month or two? If we are looking at a lockdown that extends into May, June, or even longer, those one-time stimulus checks will be stretched pretty thin," says Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and governance at the University of Washington's Evans School.
