Joseph Stiglitz: Ending Unemployment Benefits as Pandemic Rages Is Cruel & Hurts Economic Recovery
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5P9WV)
As unemployment benefits for millions of U.S. workers expired on Labor Day, with many states suffering the worst surge of the pandemic, economist Joseph Stiglitz says it's disturbing" federal aid was allowed to lapse. This is going to feed into the problems posed by the Delta variant." Stiglitz also talks about whether Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should stay in the job, saying he has done a reasonable job" during the pandemic but has a tendency to side with Wall Street and engage in deregulation."