I know we need to shore up the companies but we also most definitely need to shore up the workers! We saw how the bailout for the 2008 collapse helped the regular people. NOT! conservatives, take note who is actually trying to help you!
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article...avirus-relief/
WASHINGTON—With events moving quickly towards yet another economic stimulus bill hitting Capitol Hill, progressive lawmakers and groups have banded together and are lobbying hard to ensure the measure puts people, not corporate interests, first.
But they have one big obstacle to overcome: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is determined the next economic relief bill contains $250 billion for so-called “small businesses,” and smaller sums sent to hurting hospitals and to states and cities who have seen their revenues disappear – and nothing at all for workers.
But they have one big obstacle to overcome: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is determined the next economic relief bill contains $250 billion for so-called “small businesses,” and smaller sums sent to hurting hospitals and to states and cities who have seen their revenues disappear – and nothing at all for workers.
The progressive lawmakers and groups on the April 20 press teleconference made it clear that dollars for small businesses and pittances for the others won’t fly as far as they’re concerned.
It would focus on money for people. Ocasio-Cortez, like Sen. Bernie Sanders, said it should have continuing $2,000 monthly payments to adults and $1,000 to kids until the crisis is over. Pressley said it should include rent and mortgage forbearance, along with provisions to ensure landlords and banks don’t come down all at once on people’s heads when those restrictions are lifted.
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