Some Stimulating Data About Those Rebate Checks

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Americans have virtuously declared an intention to use their economic-stimulus rebate checks for paying off bills, reducing debt, increasing their savings, etc. A Harris Poll worked around such pronouncements by including some more self-indulgent items on a menu of choices when it asked respondents what they’d do with the money.

Twenty percent said they’ll use at least some of it for a “trip for leisure purposes,” and 16 percent said they’ll use some for dining out.

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