A senior economist says the $2 trillion stimulus bill 'is not going to be big enough' to fight the oncoming recession (by paulconstant)
spends her days immersed in data. She's continually referencing charts and models of employment levels, productivity, and wage stagnation. Her job is to absorb the relevant data from those dry reports and synthesize them into economic stories that speak to the average American, in an effort to reduce inequality and improve the lives of workers. She's very good at her job.
"One of the best things about the CARES Act is how big it was," Shierholz begins. "That really, really matters because we are facing something like we've never seen before." The fact that Congress didn't even entertain serious dissent about the size of the CARES Act signifies that lawmakers understand the scale of the disaster that we are facing down. She's impressed, too, with "the fact that Congress moved quickly.
Though she categorizes the CARES Act's unemployment insurance as a huge win, Shierholz said there's a loophole in the policy large enough to cause a series of outbreaks around the country: "Undocumented immigrants do not have access to any of the unemployment insurance benefits," she explains. Hanauer suggests that corporate bailouts should have had one major string attached. If a corporation takes the bailout money, he said, it should be under the condition that "the public owns a piece of your company — and that it's a preference above the existing shareholders." He said this would be a straightforward option for corporations in trouble: "If you really need the money, then you'll take the money.
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