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5 days old but now that every parent us going to get a check starting in July, I doubt there will be another stimulus
i'd guess no
5 days old but now that every parent us going to get a check starting in July, I doubt there will be another stimulus
The temporary direct aid to parents is huge, I hope they make it permanent.
Good lord!
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“Permanent Job Losers” No Better Off Than Last Summer.
But Most of the 18 Million Temporary Job Losers Working Again
Bringing back permanent job losers took years the last two times,
and it hasn’t even started yet.
Employers reported that they have added 916,000 workers to their payrolls in March,
and 1.62 million over the past three months (green line in the chart).
This brought the total number of jobs at “establishments” – companies, governments, and nonprofits – to 144.1 million,
still down 8.4 million jobs from February 2020,
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/04/02/permanent-job-losers-no-better-off-than-last-summer-but-most-of-the-18-million-temporary-job-losers-are-working-again/
structural racism in government, going back to the FFs
Minority Entrepreneurs Struggled to Get Small-Business Relief Loans
A year after the Paycheck Protection Program started, studies show how
its design hurt Black- and other minority-owned businesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/04/business/ppp-loans-minority-businesses.html
Frost King and other ST racists thrilled
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those who have already have business with the disbursing ins utions get concierge service, so to speak. there's a name for the economic effect, I forget what it is....
Cantillon effect
regular home owners squeezed out by investors, feature or bug?
Why it's probably a feature not a bug: it's another distressed real estate bonanza for Wall Street.
Confirms many polls over the years that
about 50% of people don't like their jobs or managers or company, completely disaffected,
with many chained to their jobs by group health insurance, reducing the mobility of Labor
Poll: Employees would rather make less money than go back to an office
For many people, one of the few good things about this pandemic has been the ability to work from home.
The past year has shown both employees and employers that many jobs can be done effectively from home.
In fact, the desire to keep work from home has been so strong that it appears
a significant majority of people would rather turn down a $30,000 salary increase than lose the ability to work from home.
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2021/...king-from-home
San Antonio school officials want to know where their billions in federal stimulus funds are
More than $1 billion in federal stimulus funds hangs in the balance for San Antonio area school districts that have been left wondering if they will ever see the much-needed dollars that could help address learning loss and other pandemic-related expenses.
State officials have been mum on the status of the funds, declining to tell schools if or when they might see the federal dollars.
Texas qualifies to receive about $17.9 billion from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act signed in December and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act adopted in March, according to multiple education policy experts.
Bexar County school districts would receive about $1.02 billion.
School leaders and education advocates fear the state will again use federal stimulus funds to plug holes in the state’s budget.
a bill filed by Texas House Appropriations Committee Chair Greg Bonnen (R-League City) could further delay the federal funds from reaching schools.
The Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) called the bill a ploy to allow state leaders to divert federal stimulus funds away from education.
https://sanantonioreport.org/san-antonio-school-officials-want-to-know-where-their-billions-in-federal-stimulus-funds-are
ahead of promised state and federal rental assistance, Texas strengthens the hand of landlords to evict their tenants.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-r...12-Months.htmlWe approach the second quarter of 2021 cautiously anticipating the bankruptcy backlog that emerged during the pandemic may be peaking
aka Vulture / Crisis Capitalism
Texas must maintain higher education and K-12 funding to tap billions in federal aid for public schools
The state can seek a waiver from the federal government if it can’t keep education funding steady.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/educ...public-schools
"feed my sheep"
the service/hospitality industry is dismayed that its workforce hasn't returned yet.
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the...broken-economyStick with me here, but what if people weren’t lazy — and instead, for the first time in a long time, were able to say no to exploitative working conditions and poverty-level wages? And what if business owners are scandalized, dismayed, frustrated, or bewildered by this scenario because their pre-pandemic business models were predicated on a steady stream of non-unionized labor with no other options? It’s not the labor force that’s breaking. It’s the economic model.
Unemployment benefits have offered a steady paycheck while you figure out your options. Put differently: a version of the safety net that’s been missing from most American employment, and, by extension, the ability to say no. No, I don’t have to work for a restaurant that only gives me my hours three days ahead of time, thus making it nearly impossible to find reliable childcare. No, I don’t have to work clopen shifts. No, I don’t have to expect a job without sick leave or paid time off. No, I don’t have to deal with asshole customers or managers who degrade me without consequence. No, I don’t have to work in a job with significant, ac ulating health risks.
rekt by 2008 and 2021.
does capitalism fail every ten years now?
this fits in with the general enslaving of the population by extractive, predatory Capitalism to debt and exorbitant costs, monopoly rents, been going on since 1970s.
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