#Unemployment

Forrest Bennett

ForrestBennett

I read an article this morning that said we had come back for our condensed session to take up “priority bills.” Amid a global pandemic, this bill made the cut?

Ezra Levin

ezralevin

The House Democrats just put together a pretty solid COVID 4 response package. Is it the bill I would have written? No. Do I think they could have done more?

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

OBR lays out a scenario with its expected economic damageOutput currently 35% down, it estiamtesAnd borrowing likely to rise to 14% of GDP - far worse than finanical crisis OBR

William C.

williamcson

Anyone complaining about looting after US corporations just walked off with trillions unaccountably and called it a “bailout” doesn’t need to be taken seriously. Corporations stole TRILLIONS through a handout

Gareth Stockey

DrGarethStockey

Not too much of an exaggeration to say that Alistair Jarvis' piece in the Guardian today was one of the most disingenuous and disgusting pieces I have read re: UK

⬙Caoimhe⬙

oakreef

I am absolutely baffled and increasingly angry at people seeing shops, restaurants and schools being fully reopened one after the other, guidelines being loosened, unemployment being tapered off and withdrawn

balajis.com

balajis

2020 may end the 20th century, the century of mass society.Concerts, events, rallies, marches, K12, higher ed, restaurants, bars, airplanes, mass transit. Anything with tightly packed crowds of people is

Jonathan Portes

jdportes

This is a good, balanced and well-argued "defense" of austerity by @MrRBourne. Good start: he admits scaremongering about the gilts markets was wrong, both theoretically and empirically and that many

Mike Memoli

mikememoli

In his first in-person interview in months, @JoeBiden tells @danabash that a president needs to "lead by example," contrasting his and President Trump's Memorial Day appearances with, and without masks

Ryan Cummings

Pol_Sec_Analyst

South Africa's relatively low number of #covid19 infection & mortality rates, is the only reason why there is debate regarding the merits of lockdown. Its initiation - as elsewhere -

Andy Verity

andyverity

Banks have just reported business interruption loans have doubled with more than £1bn lent to 6,020 businesses@and this has been welcomed by @RishiSunak . But there are well over 5

gee

G0LDENFINELINE

a thread of petitions and carrds about lebanon https://linktr.ee/solidarityforlebanon https://lebanonscrisis.carrd.co https://helplebanon.carrd.co/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/lebanonneedsorg?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=soc

Joe Biden

JoeBiden

I’ve put together a checklist for making the economic relief and recovery effort work for families, workers, and small businesses. I encourage President Trump to adopt any and all of

Clint Smith

ClintVSmith

It's very popular for jaded political insiders to say clever things like 'nothing has changed on child poverty'. Problem is, when you look at the facts, it ain't so. In

Elder Millennial

PronouncedHare

Key points from Simon Bridges (speech agreed in advance to be bad):- Kiwis have done a great job.- Credit to government for wage subsidy.- The financial sacrifices have tough.- Success

Veteran Side Hustles

G_King_Cash

Imagine being born in 1900.When you're 14 years old World War I beginsand it ends when you are 18 with 22 million dead.Shortly after, a world pandemic flu called "spanish