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In reply to the discussion: The upcoming job losses will be unlike anything the US has ever seen [View all]IronLionZion
(45,426 posts)25. Small businesses have execs?
What I'm talking about is giving cash directly to workers who need it during the shutdown, which would include many restaurant owners and those types of small businesses. Not to large businesses who can borrow money cheaply at record low rates. Now we can debate what size we cut this off at, or do something to help businesses producing necessary health care supplies or food or whatever.
Unpaid workers from large businesses can still get cash directly, but the corporation itself should not.
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The upcoming job losses will be unlike anything the US has ever seen [View all]
MoonlitKnight
Mar 2020
OP
I was reading an economist the other day (forget which) who stated that the very thing
Hestia
Mar 2020
#17
He'll end his term with the highest unemployment and lowest stock market seen in modern times.
LudwigPastorius
Mar 2020
#18
The highest rate of U.S. unemployment was 24.9% in 1933, during the Great Depression.1
MoonlitKnight
Apr 2020
#41