Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Case in point: wage and salary income fell $800 billion (at an annual rate) between Feb and May, but this was more than offset by $1.2 trillion in unemployment benefits. This kept lockdown of contact-intensive sector from spilling over into a much wider slump 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 27, 2020 Hibernated

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If the jobs don't come roaring back, which they won't, cutoff of benefits and failure to provide aid become huge problems. The economy has been ugly, but cld have been much uglier — and is set to become so unless there's very quick action 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 27, 2020

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But expanded benefits are set to expire at the end of next month, and for technical reasons will actually vanish for most workers on 25 July. There was supposed to be OK bc of a rapidly recovering economy — but the failure on virus control means slow recovery instead 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 27, 2020