Two-thirds of Folks Who Received Stimulus Checks Never Spent Them

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Remember the 2008 stimulus checks that President Bush OK’d, hoping the recipients would spend the money and give the economy a boost? Most people just put the money in the bank.

The one-time stimulus pay-out of $96 billion didn’t stimulate much of anything, according to research by the Federal Reserve and University of Michigan academics.