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The coronavirus crisis has proven that access to basic life amenities is a public health necessity; therefore, legislation should reflect the growing need for housing and health services.
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The Path to Higher, More Inclusive Economic Growth and Good Jobs Getty/Justin Sullivan
Julia Cusick
Introduction and summary
Congress has passed massive COVID-19 relief legislation. Most of the economic discussion surrounding President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) focuses on its delivery of urgently needed help to struggling families, businesses, and state and local governments. The primary impact of this legislation is thus on the demand side of the economy.
1 People, businesses, and state and local governments will get more income and therefore raise their spending easy enough. But the ARP should also be seen as an important first step in tackling the lackluster supply side of the economy. An economy can only enjoy healthy, stable growth that generates sufficient jobs and resources for broadly shared prosperity if both supply and demand go up.
Sanders Says Walmart Pays Workers Starvation Wages, Taxpayers Make Up Difference
On 2/25/21 at 2:10 PM EST
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Walmart pays employees starvation wages, on the heels of an announcement the company will increase pay to $15 per hour for only some employees. Walmart pays wages so low that tens of thousands of their workers are forced to rely on public assistance in order to survive, Sanders said Thursday in a meeting of the Senate Budget Committee. They are forced to rely on food stamps to feed their families, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer; public housing to put a roof over their heads, paid for by the U.S. taxpayer; and Medicaid to get the health care they need paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.