Do I know anyone? That is not very scientific. What I know are the demographics posted below that eight million have slipped into poverty in just a couple of months at the fastest pace ever.
And to add to that the 11 million undocumented who have gotten no money at all. And that includes a lot of kids going hungry and people scared to death for lack of money.
Where is our humanity? Do we let kids starve, while giving corporations trillions. Four trillion to start out with according to Rachael.
But here is the headline news.
Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer
Nation’s poverty rate has risen at the fastest pace ever this year after aid for the unemployed declined.
Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer - The Washington Post
Kentucky Is Hurting as Its Senators Limit or Oppose Federal Aid
In Perry County, Ky., the local government is cutting back on garbage pickup. Magoffin County is laying off public safety workers. And in Floyd County, where food pantries are reporting that demand has tripled over the past month, officials are trying to figure out how to avoid cuts to a program distributing food to families.
“A lot of these kids, this is the only meal they get in a day,” said Robert Williams, Floyd County’s judge-executive, the chief elected official. “I can’t ask a kid to sit on a computer all day with nothing to eat.”
We were in dire need of help economically to start with, before Covid,” said Matthew C. Wireman, the judge-executive of Magoffin County, an Appalachian county where the unemployment rate was 16.7 percent in October, one of the highest in the country.
Kentucky Hurting While Awaiting Federal Pandemic Aid - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
<,Message #462561 from neolib at 12/30/2020 11:52:00 AM
And millions are desperate!!
Do you actually know anyone who has been seriously economically impacted by CV-19?
I don't. Everyone I know is doing about the same in 2020 as they did in 2019, other than they got $1200 given to them earlier in the year, and looks like they will get another $600 shortly. While the USA deficit went up Trillions... |
