The coronavirus recession has been especially cruel, victimizing people at the bottom of the pay scale. In the 2008-2009 Great Recession, middle- and higher-wage workers bore the brunt of job losses.
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“I can’t get anything.” Gerardo González has applied for jobs at five companies in the month since he lost his job at a bakery in Mexico City. He has burned through his savings trying to support his family.
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“I just work three days a week, and this is not enough even for a single person.” Mohammed Gamal, who used to earn a decent living working full-time at a café in Egypt, had to send his wife and kids back to his parents’ house and is sharing a room with a friend to save on rent.
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At least 30% of the U.S. jobs lost to the pandemic aren’t expected to come back, many of them at hotels, restaurants, retailers and entertainment venues.http://apne.ws/E2KDMNC
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I get so much more done now having Zoom as a resource. I hope it never goes away. Wish I'd have bought stock.
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Jobs never come all the way back, regardless of why the economy craters.
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Who in the right mind needs a job when they could be on an island collecting unemployment benefits, plus federal $300 weekly bonus, plus stimulus checks every 3 months?
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People who understand that the longer you stay on unemployment, the harder it is to rejoin the workforce. Low income jobs are going to be filled with high schoolers and college students because employers won't want to hire adults who have been unemployed for the past year
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When are we going to admit that capitalism was never meant to benefit the majority of the human population and is just corporate feudalism? Robotics advancements are steadily taking away jobs for good and the rich get far more money than they deserve warming desks all day.
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We have no need for everyone to be working, it's about time the rich pay their fair share into a system that has been benefitting them since they got good RNG being born into the right family or had opportunities at the right moments. Everyone deserves a decent standard of living
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