#Unemployment

Tarita 🌻🇨🇦

EveryAlbertan

@jkenney @shandro @Lagrange @Alberta_UCP @MattWolfAB @tarajago @ABFamDocs I respectfully ask about policies being built to support the mental health crisis Alberta was facing pre pandemic, which will be exponentially heightened

Lisa Coronado

LisaCoronado

My husband’s work has been canceled today. He’s a floor installer who is a sole prop. We have no unemployment. He is our family’s provider. Right now he’s doing zoom

Arnab Datta

ArnabDatta321

THREAD (1/n): With the spate of recent stories and podcasts on automatic stabilizers, I thought it would be worth a thread about a less discussed benefit of automatic stabilizers: as

The Boss Of Bosses

HarliOfLife

In a period when unemployment is at an unprecedented rate, freelancing has rapidly become the way-out for a lot of people. Tbh, it's not just a way-out, but even a

New Scientist

newscientist

Good morning – here’s a summary of today’s #covid19 headlineshttps://newscienti.st/3bMSHoz Hospitals and morgues in New York City are becoming overwhelmed with coronavirus patients. At the rate the epidemic is growing,

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Overheard in a Newcastle cafe, two very despondent students, clearly not long arrived in the city: “I might as well just go home. What is the point in being here?

Brendan Thorne

bthorne

In case you're wondering if the GOP is going to do anything to help you with: - COVID-19- healthcare- eviction protection- stimulus checks- expanded unemployment benefits- voting rightshaha jk you

Chandra "Smash The Curve" Duggirala M.D

csentropy

Thoughts on investing in a pandemic: (Disclaimer: Not investment advice, Not medical advice) 1. Popular Narrative: “Look how bad unemployment numbers are. How can the market go up? It is

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zeolyne_

40% of the population have a monthly income of 11,000 Naira.82 million people survive on 500 Naira daily. 86 Million people earn less than 40,000 Naira every month. If you

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

A recurring viral genre during the lockdown is photos of signs on the front doors of low-waged establishments (especially fast food restaurants) asking customers to have patience with long wait-times

The Justin Horton Show

ejhchess

You can already guess how the language of a united national effort will segue easily into a campaign of massive public spending cuts and redundancies when the economic disaster hits

Stag

thestaghound

Big #COVID19 head scratcher of the day: the health of our economy and why it continues to "rip". We've all seen the slow pace of R&D, lack of testing, unemployment

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week another 680,000 people applied for UI. This included 547,000 who applied for regular state UI (seasonally adjusted) and 133,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

Jeremy Boreing

JeremyDBoreing

You can almost always determine what‘s right or effective by looking at government’s response and doing the opposite. The virus is killing retirees. Destroy 36M jobs!The virus doesn’t effect the

Catherine of Pisgah

sacredheartcat

Making $150,000 a year in salary is not being rich. It's a cakewalk compared to $50k or even less. But it isn't "rich" no matter how you feel about it.

John Hayward

Doc_0

The softer ranks of the Left think of jobs as privately funded social programs, so they're perpetually surprised that their policies make unemployment worse. In truth, jobs are an exchange