Roughly $17.5 million came into the Haines Borough through the CARES Act in 2020, not counting Economic Impact Payments (EIP) to individuals, also known as “stimulus checks.” Based on census data, it’s likely that between $1.5 million and $2 million entered the community through the first and second EIP, but the IRS said it doesn’t have a community-specific breakdown at this point.
The CARES Act, a federal economic stimulus package passed last spring, made money…