Flu.Watch - Influenza News and Updates
Reports on the Coronavirus and Influenza Around the World
  • Home
  • Updates
Navigation: Main Page > Updates > Stocks Are Soaring. So Is Misery.

Breaking News

Answers to 9 crucial questions about the coronavirus variants spreading around the world
Prisons are covid hot spots. But few countries are prioritizing vaccines for inmates.
Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Spending Package to Combat Virus and Downturn
What’s in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan calls for stimulus checks, unemployment support and more

Updates

Stocks Are Soaring. So Is Misery.

Editor New York Times August 21, 2020

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company in history to be valued at more than $2 trillion. Donald Trump is, of course, touting the stock market as proof that the economy has recovered from the coronavirus; too bad about those 173,000 dead Americans, but as he says, “It is what it is.”

But the economy probably doesn’t feel so great to the millions of workers who still haven’t gotten their jobs back and who have just seen their unemployment benefits slashed. The $600 a week supplemental benefit enacted in March has expired, and Trump’s purported replacement is basically a sick joke.

Even before the aid cutoff, the number of parents reporting that they were having trouble …continued .
[Source: New York Times]

Related Posts

Updates /

Answers to 9 crucial questions about the coronavirus variants spreading around the world

Updates /

Prisons are covid hot spots. But few countries are prioritizing vaccines for inmates.

Updates /

Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Spending Package to Combat Virus and Downturn

‹ U.S. stock futures rise as Wall Street tries to end a record-setting week on a high note › Ex-Postal Service official: White House involved in slowing mail
January 2021
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Dec    

Recent Updates

  • Answers to 9 crucial questions about the coronavirus variants spreading around the worldAnswers to 9 crucial questions about the coronavirus variants spreading around the world
  • Prisons are covid hot spots. But few countries are prioritizing vaccines for inmates.Prisons are covid hot spots. But few countries are prioritizing vaccines for inmates.
  • Biden Outlines $1Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Spending Package to Combat Virus and Downturn
  • What’s in Biden’s $1What’s in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
  • Biden's $1Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan calls for stimulus checks, unemployment support and more

Flu Watch Monthly Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020

Browse by Popular Tag

Business Insider BuzzFeed CBS News Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CNBC CNN Fox News Huffington Post New York Times The Guardian Washington Post World Health Organization Yahoo News

Back to Top

  • DMCA / Copyright
(c) 2020 Flu.Watch