A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data,” Opportunity Insights Working Paper (Cambridge, Mass. : Opportunity Insights, May), https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/tracker_paper.pdf.
Analysis by Bhutta and others uses data from the Survey of Consumer Finances to assess how the cash assistance (expanded unemployment insurance benefits and stimulus payments) under the CARES Act would help families cope with job loss and find that the CARES Act dramatically improves households’ financial security; see Neil Bhutta, Jacqueline Blair, Lisa J. Dettling, and Kevin B. Moore (2020), “COVID-19, the CARES Act, and Families’ Financial Security,” working paper, July.