1/ Preventing the Unemployment Cliff—per bit.ly/2D9jq2A BY MATT HUGHES via ROOSEVELT RUNDOWN @RooseveltFwd --Extend UI and guarantee fair wages--We Need a Fair Wage Guarantee--For the one in five American workers currently drawing unemployment benefits...
@RooseveltFwd 2/ ...-- the end of this month brings a grim reality: the expiration of Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation--—per bit.ly/2D9jq2A -- which has added $600 a week in benefits and forestalled evictions-- bankruptcies-- and food insecurity for millions-...
@RooseveltFwd 3/ ...- Roosevelt Fellow @BharatRamamurti &Great Democracy Initiative Fellow Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1 explain why an extension of this supplement is necessary but insufficient for insulating Americans from steep income drops quoted in bit.ly/2D9jq2A ...
@RooseveltFwd @BharatRamamurti @owenslindsay1 4/ ...-- The solution-- they @BharatRamamurti & @owenslindsay1 argue-- is a fair wage guarantee--quoted in bit.ly/2D9jq2A - Four benefits: It raises wages for millions-- provides a powerful economic stimulus-- promotes the hiring of unemployed workers...
@RooseveltFwd @BharatRamamurti @owenslindsay1 5/ ...--@BharatRamamurti & @owenslindsay1 argue-- is a fair wage guarantee--quoted in bit.ly/2D9jq2A - and addresses racial inequities in the labor market--...
@RooseveltFwd @BharatRamamurti @owenslindsay1 6/ ... Learn more in “The Fair Wage Guarantee: A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Raise Wages and Accelerate Our Economic Recovery”@BharatRamamurti & @owenslindsay1 argue-- is a fair wage guarantee--quoted in bit.ly/2D9jq2A ...
@RooseveltFwd @BharatRamamurti @owenslindsay1 7/ ... - and read more from Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti and Roosevelt Fellow Naomi Zewde @nzewde in Vox’s “The End of the American Dream-- bit.ly/3jF0UQD”
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