Shuttered businesses and restaurants led to unemployment and poverty during the Coronavirus pandemic. “If we could provide Universal Basic Income alongside other policies that help the working class, it would be great,” said Declan Hilfers ’21. Our economy is not working. Amidst a global economic crisis and a botched response to it, our Federal government has failed to be anything but incompetent. As progressive Democrats, corporate Democrats, and Republicans alike bicker in Washington D.C., the country’s economy continues to slide downhill with over eight million Americans falling into poverty, an unemployment rate of 7.9%, and no stimulus package in […]
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