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It is already clear that the pandemic could cause a negative supply shock if the amount of available labor were to decline rapidly because working-age people have fallen ill (or died) from the disease.
Without legislative action, crucial stimulus policies – Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Extended Benefits, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, the national eviction moratorium, and forbearance on federal student loans – will expire by the end of December.
The first priority, though, is to restore unemployment benefits and extend the window of eligibility for those who have been put out of work by the pandemic.
In response, the Fed issued its own statement making clear that it “would prefer that the full suite of emergency facilities established during the coronavirus pandemic continue to serve their important role as a backstop for our still-strained and vulnerable economy.”
The California Policy Lab reports that more than 80% of black workers have sought unemployment benefits during the pandemic – a rate nearly twice the state average.
Despite the ongoing Sino-American trade war during Trump’s presidency, China continued to grow by more than 6% annually until the COVID-19 pandemic, and the International Monetary Fund expects that it will be the only major economy to expand in this disastrous year.
A looming credit crunch was evident even before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet only governments can deal with the flight from risk during a once-in-a-century pandemic.
Providing direct and immediate aid to the companies hit by the pandemic is essential.
This year alone, the COVID-19 pandemic – which has already resulted in more than one million deaths – has disrupted supply chains, tanked global demand, and pushed the world economy into a deep recession.
But at the same time, the pandemic has profoundly altered the global debate about inequality and raised the prospect of reversing our decades-long failed experiment with market fundamentalism.
But fewer have noticed that people around the world are going to court to challenge long-standing injustices made visible by the pandemic.
Together with recent litigation against Amazon in France, the attorney general’s letter may presage further legal action by government authorities and workers against the firm, whose revenues have soared during the pandemic.
Broader appreciation of the links between human activity and fast-approaching climate disaster could benefit climate lawsuits initiated during the pandemic, including one filed in March by South Korean teenagers seeking to compel their government to commit to bigger carbon dioxide emissions cuts.
Such initiatives would rest on the premise – further bolstered by the pandemic – that economic security is not a discretionary matter, but rather a human-rights requirement.
The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the plight of financially struggling service providers around the world.
After the pandemic struck earlier this year, international lenders refused to roll over their outstanding loans to Southern European countries and demanded repayment, subsequently investing the money in the eurozone’s northern members, particularly Germany.
The downward trend has continued during the pandemic, widening the output gaps to 35% and 34%, respectively.
The Pandemic Stress TestCHICAGO – The coronavirus pandemic has taken the world by surprise and will now expose underlying economic weaknesses wherever they lie.
If the pandemic has any silver lining, it is the possibility of a much-needed reset in public dialogue that focuses attention on the most vulnerable in society, on the need for global cooperation, and on the importance of professional leadership and expertise.
In developed countries, in particular, the pandemic will soon reveal just how many people have joined the ranks of the precariat in recent years.
The pandemic may have a silver lining here, too.
If the professionals fail to capitalize on them, the pandemic will offer no silver linings – only more dread, division, chaos, and misery.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic – the costliest and most far-reaching crisis since World War II – the need for institutional renewal and recovery is obvious.
Among the most ominous threats and challenges, beyond pandemic disease, are a rapidly changing global climate, violent conflict and large-scale displacement in fragile states, and sophisticated cyber-attacks.
If all member states act upon the UN75 Declaration properly and with the support of global civil society, they can nurture a renewed spirit of international cooperation with two mutually reinforcing goals: institutional strengthening and a robust, “green” recovery from the pandemic.
Stop the Posturing on COVID-19ADDIS ABABA – The COVID-19 outbreak is threatening to become a global pandemic of the type not seen for a century.
And Bill Gates, who previously has been vocal about the danger of a global pandemic, says COVID-19 “has started behaving a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
Events such as the COVID-19 outbreak should not be occasions for politicized responses: A sense of shared humanity must take precedence over politics when a disease threatens to become a pandemic.
While these decisions should be based on a rational consideration of economic and health risks, it would be naive to think that politics won’t factor into pandemic policymaking.
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