Job Cuts Almost Triple in 2020
announced job losses last month rose by 134.5%,
compared to cuts announced in December 2019.
For all of 2020, more than 2.3 million job cuts have been announced,
almost three times the 592,556 jobs lost in all of 2019.
U.S. employers announced 77,030 job cuts in December,
an increase of 19% from November’s total of 64,797 job losses.
https://247wallst.com/jobs/2021/01/07/job-cuts-almost-triple-in-2020
Manchin says "absolutely not" when asked about the prospect of 2k checks.
there were some republican senators for in, including hawley
ing piece of . Half expect this pos to vote McConnell majority leader in the next senate.
Yeah I don’t see this as dead on arrival. There are republicans for 2000 dollars stimulus.
But even if all republicans go back on their word, I don’t think Manchin wants to be that guy who kills democrats first act as majority with a still ongoing pandemic.
yep, Obama never had 60 in the Senate, and Biden doesn't have 50
now that would be something
Biden must have seen what Manchin said. He's out on TV saying people need more money and not only that but also said congress needs to work on raising the minimum wage to 15 dollars.
Manchin was on Fox in the past couple weeks telling Fox viewers that he would block any Dem bill that Fox's (tiny number of unelected) viewers wouldn't approve.
America is ed and un able
Coincidentally, Manchin joins Munchkin in saying No Way to $2000
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-08-2021 at 05:31 PM.
Wolf street
Sen. Manchin prefers targeted stimulus checks
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin walked a fine line Sunday on whether he'd support a round of stimulus checks increasing direct aid to Americans to $2,000 per person, saying he preferred more targeted relief.
"That's not a yes or no question," Manchin said on CNN's "State of the Union," when asked by host Jake Tapper whether he was on board with sending $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans who earn $75,000 or less.
"I am on board by helping people that need help, people that really can't make it, people who don't have a job, they can't put food on their table. I am in total support of helping them," Manchin said.
"Sending checks to people that basically already have a check and aren't going to be able spend that or are not going to spend it, usually are putting it in their savings account right now, that's not who we are. We have done an awful lot of that, it's time now to target where the money goes," he added.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...-checks-457065
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smh, this is why we can't have nice things
Just for balance, Biden was against any stimulus checks until someone told him it could be a vote-getter.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 01-10-2021 at 05:13 PM.
Disagree with him on this. The economy is stagnated and he is just making broad assumptions that people are going to stash the cash. Vaccines are being administered and people see light at the end of the tunnel now. They will spend.
On another note, he is why I am not tripping over a Democratic slim majority in senate.
Jim Crow Joe Manchin is just positioning himself to squeeze some earmarks for West Virginia our of the next stimulus package. He and Murkowski are gonna have all kinds of bargaining power
Absolutely. Earmarks are how the senate used to build consensus and get done, and they really aren’t that expensive as a % of total spending. McConnell started stonewalling them in 2009 as part of a long term strategy that made it impossible for Democrats to win senate races in red state. We should absolutely bring earmarks back as a way to get Manchin/Murkowski/Collins to vote yes on .
Bernie was making the rounds on TV today as well. Saw he was talking about sending 1400 checks instead of the already established 2k. What the happened there. lol
2nd grade math.. They have already sent $600. $600 + $1400 = $2000
There is that. But the major consensus among dems is that the next stimulus check will be 2k from scratch.
They arent very good at math either.
They should provide another 1400 to fulfill the $2000 promise but that’s it. Other relief should be vaccine administration, state and local help, and unemployment aid.
Win/win then. Manchin is a POS but if all the food stamps he extracts for his state get him elected again in 2024 he's useful as one vote against McConnell being majority leader.Jim Crow Joe Manchin is just positioning himself to squeeze some earmarks for West Virginia our of the next stimulus package. He and Murkowski are gonna have all kinds of bargaining power
Yeah imo it’s this simple as difficult as Manchin might be in providing the 50th vote that’s better than McConnell stopping the bill from going to the floor at all.
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