It’s no surprise that Fox News and other conservative media outlets think that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) is too generous to unemployed Americans. For decades, conservatives have argued that various programs — whether they be food stamps , Social Security , universal basic income , disability assistance programs , or other forms of welfare — disincentivize work. The rhetoric behind this argument, perhaps most famously employed by Ronald Reagan in his “ welfare queen ” speeches, plays on people’s resentment of those they might view as freeloaders.
So when people learned that an unemployment […]
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