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.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.