Joe Biden Wants to Pay People $100 for Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine
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President Joe Biden wants badly to increase vaccination rates in the United States — so badly he's willing to pay for it.
Biden is now "calling on state, territorial and local governments to provide $100 payments for every newly vaccinated American," according to a Thursday news release from the Department of Treasury. Intended as an incentive to make progress in the nation's fight against the coronavirus, the announcement came amid mounting concerns over the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19.
"For these governments and the communities they represent, no task is more urgent than turning the tide on the pandemic, and there is no better tool than vaccination," added the Treasury Department.
