Some 27 million US workers are receiving jobless benefits. While the government is
reporting an improvement of unemployment to 8.4%, it is more like 9% because many workers who have been temporarily laid off mark themselves as āabsent.ā Moreover, some 300,000 of the new jobs are as census workers, which doesnāt really tell you that the private sector is rebounding. Not to mention that 8.4% unemployment is apocalyptic.
The bulk of the crisis is owing to the
Trump administrationās refusal to implement a national testing and tracing program or to encourage mask wearing, and its policy of closing down the economy too late and opening too soon, have all deepened and prolonged the crisis in a way that is not paralleled in other industrialized democracies such as South Korea and Germany.
Let's be clear: this is a very sadāand should be a very somberāLabor Day.
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Trump said today that Biden would undo what his administration has done.
We can only hope so.