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I wish Americans knew just how much their government despises them. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1304011512915296256
The U.S. government gave SOME people a one-time measly payment of $1200 6 months ago, which doesn't even cover rent in many big cities.
Meanwhile Canadians unemployed because of COVID have been receiving $2000 a month since late March. https://www.vicnews.com/news/trudeau-unveils-new-2000-per-month-benefit-to-streamline-covid-19-aid/
In the UK the right-wing government agreed to pay up to 80% of the wages of those unable to work because of COVID, an extremely modest arrangement that nonetheless would be derided as a communist social engineering scheme in the US.
Germany's conservative government's unemployment aid package, which aims to alleviate the economic downfall from a massive transition to Kuzarbeit (reduced hours), is also modest but nonetheless looks almost utopian compared to what we got in the US. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-passes-coronavirus-aid-package-for-workers/a-53213509
In Italy, a country with a much weaker economy than the United States, the government's wage compensation fund covers 80% of the pay that would've been payable to employees for hours not worked because of COVID. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/a9a1127f/covid-19-italy-sets-up-a-wage-compensation-fund-to-help-employers-overcome-the-crisis
In Spain, another country with a much weaker economy than the US, the PSOE government introduced a modest basic income plan for low-income individuals that still looks amazing compared to what we got in America. https://www.fastcompany.com/90511093/spain-creates-a-universal-minimum-income-targeted-at-2-3-million-people
Damn this blew up, might write a comparative piece for the new political journal @LabyrinthPol on how the US totally fumbled the COVID response and sentenced millions of Americans to immoderation as a result. Follow me if you’re interested, I guess.
Also follow @DataProgress’s CARES Act Bot ( @ExtendCaresUI) which chronicles the lives of Americans who’ve only been able to scrape by during the pandemic because of the CARES Act and why they desperately need it extended: https://twitter.com/extendcaresui/status/1304112157236310021
