According to one study, the American middle class should be earning $42,000 more per worker. That's a stark contrast to how tax breaks have helped the wealthiest Americans get even richer under Trump.
Caleb Frostman resigns Friday at governor’s request.
Pandemic shows us the value of essential workers, but it also prevents the gatherings that would show appreciation.
By the time her son was born in 2017, “$1,000 a month only got my son half day care” at a good childcare provider, one mom said.
President Trump’s administration wants to cap payments at 70 percent of a worker’s pre-pandemic earnings.
Tens of thousands of frontline workers across the country are going on strike Monday to protest systemic racism and police brutality and to demand that corporations and the government take action to address white supremacy, end economic exploitation of Black workers, and allow all workers to unionize.
Proposal comes as unemployment for June drops to 8.5 percent and backlog hovers around 141,000 unemployment claims.
“The vice president believes it’s not the time to just build it back the way things were before ... it’s time to imagine and build a new American economy for the next generation.”
PPP beneficiaries included billionaires, Trump administration officials, members of Congress, political donors, and wealthy financial institutions.
As unemployment soared and economic security reached record lows, eight Wisconsin billionaires benefited greatly.
