Long-term unemployment could become a serious problem as the pandemic-induced recession drags on.
Economy
A humane immigration policy is a necessary component of any serious plan for recovering from the COVID recession.
More than half of the number of jobs that were lost in April have not yet been recovered.
Failure to address the pandemic head-on may have resulted in larger quarterly economic losses than were necessary.
The Chamber of Commerce lobbied against using the Defense Production Act to address COVID supply shortfalls.
Britain’s self-inflicted isolation will exclude it from working with EU nations toward a post-pandemic age.
For Trump and the GOP, maintaining a façade of prosperity is necessary to keeping power.
Seventy-three percent of the unemployed report being on temporary layoffs.
In the face of devastation today, despite trillions in federal stimulus, real political action has been lackluster.
To them, we are only meat for the machine, nothing more than an entirely expendable commodity.