Second stimulus checks will help, but U.S. income crisis runs much deeper than Covid CNBC 12/20/2020 Eric Rosenbaum
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday night that lawmakers in Congress had agreed to a second stimulus deal that would include $600 stimulus checks, additional unemployment benefits, food assistance and rental relief to millions.
The Covid-19 crisis and stalemate over a new relief package has highlighted and compounded the nation s inability to solve a much broader economic issue: income inequality.
Working parents at the lowest income levels are the long haulers of the pandemic when it comes to child care and education struggles, a recent CNBC survey of the U.S. workforce reveals.
The vaccine the second approved for use in the U.S. behind Pfizer and BioNTech s is Moderna s first-ever FDA authorized product. The agency s authorization kickstarts the federal government s plan to distribute roughly 5.9 million doses of Moderna s vaccine to 64 states, territories and major cities across the nation next week.
Initial doses will be limited as manufacturing ramps up, with officials predicting it will take months to immunize everyone in the U.S. who wants to be vaccinated. U.S. officials hope to vaccinate at least 20 million Americans mostly front-line health-care workers and nursing home residents by the end of the year.
The vaccine the second approved for use in the U.S. behind Pfizer and BioNTech s is Moderna s first-ever FDA authorized product. The agency s authorization kickstarts the federal government s plan to distribute roughly 5.9 million doses of Moderna s vaccine to 64 states, territories and major cities across the nation next week.
Initial doses will be limited as manufacturing ramps up, with officials predicting it will take months to immunize everyone in the U.S. who wants to be vaccinated. U.S. officials hope to vaccinate at least 20 million Americans mostly front-line health-care workers and nursing home residents by the end of the year.
Public health professionals have been clear that vaccinations are the key to fully reopening businesses, workplaces, and schools. In the new poll of more than 9,000 workers nationwide, conducted Nov. 30 to Dec. 7, nearly four in 10 workers (39%) say they are still not fully back to the office, including 22% who are still working fully from home.
But company leaders and HR teams are in a bind: without a fully vaccinated workforce, they can t guarantee the safety of their employees, and yet many workers are still hesitant to get the vaccine and even more are nervous about being forced to do so by their employer.
The vaccine the second approved for use in the U.S. behind Pfizer and BioNTech s is Moderna s first-ever FDA authorized product. The agency s authorization kickstarts the federal government s plan to distribute roughly 5.9 million doses of Moderna s vaccine to 64 states, territories and major cities across the nation next week.
Initial doses will be limited as manufacturing ramps up, with officials predicting it will take months to immunize everyone in the U.S. who wants to be vaccinated. U.S. officials hope to vaccinate at least 20 million Americans mostly front-line health-care workers and nursing home residents by the end of the year.