Have you filled up the gas tank recently? Bought groceries? If you feel like you have to dig deeper in your wallet to get less, and spend more just to simply get by, you are not imagining things. This past April, American workers saw a jump in inflation of 4.2%,...
This week President Biden launched his “Help is Here” tour as he goes around the country trying to assure working people and small businesses that he is on their side and ready to fight for them. Upon signing the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, named the American...
This text was written as background information for a broad discussion about the current situation, not as a programmatic document of Speak Out Now. Jan. 28, 2021 download .pdf The COVID crisis of 2020 has drawn into focus many of the interconnected crises of global...
Download as PDF Contents Introduction Social Pressures Under the COVID-19 Pandemic The U.S. Economic Situation Introduction Globally, as of this writing in mid-December 2020, there have been more than 72 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (number constantly rising),...
As we’re getting deeper into a new wave of COVID, the weekly rate of new layoffs is increasing, just like during the earlier waves of COVID. However, CARES Act money to bolster state unemployment benefits are set to run out just before the New Year. There’s no...
