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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums30-million-plus jobs are not coming back by Aug 1. What is the plan for the unemployed?
By Aug 1, those now unemployed are scheduled to no longer receive the $600-per-week benefit the Feds are providing as part of the CARES Act. Thats a -$2400 loss of income, monthly, for millions of Americans, most of whom will have 0% chance at finding meaningful employment. For gig workers in CA, their weekly unemployment benefit will drop from $767 to $167. Pace Steve Mnuchin, how the hell can anyone live on $167-a-week in CA?
So whats the plan? Do nothing and accept mass homelessness and starvation as just the way life is in America? Will we demonize the millions who cant find work as lazy freeloaders based on the handful of people who land a McJob in Boise?
Really, what is the plan?
tinrobot
(10,895 posts)If they don't, then they are basically forfeiting the election. Expect them to grab everything that's not nailed down on the way out.
Either is a good possibility. It will be interesting to see what happens.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Theyll do something in Sept or Oct, making it retroactive to Aug 1, most likely at a reduced $ amount per week.
In the meanwhile, a lot of suffering by those not drawing a Congressional or WH salary.
comradebillyboy
(10,144 posts)Everything will get worse as the year progresses.
Submariner
(12,503 posts)and/or an Iran wag the dog war. Chaos will rule in the fascist impeached Trump world as November approaches and he sees defeat just over the horizon imho.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)And if they won't die willingly, to kill them outright.
procon
(15,805 posts)He brags about making world shaking decisions based on his "feelings", his "gut instincts", or his hunches. He's wrong more than he's right, but he's been running the country like he's shootin' dice for chump change in some back alley.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)with a cardboard sign that says Laid Off and Starving
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)Or maybe take out a personal loan, ala Wilbur Ross, for groceries.
Or re-examine their stock portfolios.
Heaven forbid that the fascist GOP dream-nation protect its citizens from the consequences of a global scourge completely mishandled by GOPers in power!
Sarcasm hasn't suffered the same fate as reality and irony, yet, has it? Let's skip ahead to November 3rd and flush ALL the GOP turds.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I think in a year we'll be in a Second Great Depression with 50 to 75 percent unemployment that will make the previous one look like a minor economic hiccup.
Sophia_Of_PlanetX
(73 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)No way the Rs will stand for it.