NY POST- Just when it seemed some of the most disheartening trends in the US economy were finally beginning to reverse, COVID arrived to entrench them.
The pandemic has been a neutron bomb targeted at the prospects of lower-income working people.
They had finally begun to benefit from the recovery from the Great Recession when the virus ravaged industries that disproportionately employ them. Wars and depressions often reduce economic inequality. Not the pandemic. The Washington Post has called the resulting economic damage “the most unequal recession in modern US history.”
SEE: COVID-19 hit the working class hardest, just as it was finally doing better (nypost.com)
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