U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years
This and a spiraling mental health crisis are predictable outcomes from poor public health policies executed during the pandemic.<p>For unskilled labor jobs like the service industry, lockdowns are devastating which has fueled the inequality fire in 2020. Now, talks for a massive federal minimum wage increase means further sending people into poverty by destroying the value of what small savings anyone on the bottom might have.