The one time payment is stimulus spending. The country will need that. Thanks to Pelosi and Schumer it's not going to anyone earning over $100k which means it'll actually get spent rather than go into savings. They also got the money to move from the idiotic payroll tax cut and into cash for people who need it.
But, much more importantly in terms of protecting workers, they got a huge boost in the unemployment benefits. That four month guaranteed unemployment is a massive deal. It protects the people who're losing their jobs. $1200 was never going to protect anyone and isn't meant to protect anyone. But thanks to the Democrats there is actual money protecting those 3 million new unemployed this week.
It seems ridiculous to complain about the Democrats on this one. Even more so by claiming that the $1200 isn't doing what it wasn't meant to do.
The Democrats have done what seems to be a pretty damned good job considering that there's a Republican Senate and a Republican President. They've managed to get huge stimulus spending including huge protections for the newly unemployed, a hold on evictions for renters and late mortgages, and they've managed to get some oversight on the massive corporate slush fund.
But, much more importantly in terms of protecting workers, they got a huge boost in the unemployment benefits. That four month guaranteed unemployment is a massive deal. It protects the people who're losing their jobs. $1200 was never going to protect anyone and isn't meant to protect anyone. But thanks to the Democrats there is actual money protecting those 3 million new unemployed this week.
It seems ridiculous to complain about the Democrats on this one. Even more so by claiming that the $1200 isn't doing what it wasn't meant to do.
The Democrats have done what seems to be a pretty damned good job considering that there's a Republican Senate and a Republican President. They've managed to get huge stimulus spending including huge protections for the newly unemployed, a hold on evictions for renters and late mortgages, and they've managed to get some oversight on the massive corporate slush fund.
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