am watching a doco about COVID in the US ... a nurse from NYC is saying most cases were poor people, because they couldn't stop going out to work - if they dropped work, they'd be unable to pay rent or buy food.
I believe Trump gave some welfare bonuses ...?
In Australia the welfare provision so far has been excellent. I never thought I'd give the thumbs up to a Liberal Prime Minister (the Australian Liberal Party is the equivalent of the US Republican party) ... but I have to say our PM has been pretty stellar. If you were already unemployed, pre-COVID, your unemployment benefit was doubled - from a pissy $550 per fortnight to $1,200 per fortnight.
If you lost your job due to COVID our welfare system gave you $1,500 per fortnight (called the "Jobkeeper Allowance ... rather euphemistically, since the hundreds of thousands of Australians who lost jobs because of COVID will not get their jobs back).
This month the unemployment benefit is getting reduced from 1,200 per fortnight to about $850.00 per fortnight. There was talk of reverting to the old $550 per fortnight in December but over the last few days the PM has all but guaranteed it won't go under $850.00 per fortnight in the foreseeable future.
What did Trump do?
