The American people don't need Christmas, they need help.
The American people now filing for unemployment are running to very oppressive laws, like not being able to collect unemployment if one has not worked for the SAME EMPLOYER for a year or worked for a year. This is a GOVERNMENT ENFORCED LAY OFF.
The States need to remove barriers to unemployment benefits. IF ANYONE IS DENIED UNEMPLOYMENT APPEAL IT!
Cuomo: (click here) New York needs 110,000 hospital beds for coronavirus patients in 45 days and we only have 53,000
The current report by Mayor DeBassio shows the cases in NYC alone is using up over 10 percent of AVAILABLE beds in the State of New York.
The federal bill that has just passed and signed by the president is a great bill. It needs to be fully funded and no funds from that bill should be touched.
The States need federal help to meet the demand by its citizens. NOT COMPANIES, the states.
The American people need a weekly income, INCLUDING TIP EARNERS. The tip earners need to receive the same unemployment amount that others are receiving. That means tip earners receive unemployment without prejudice to the fact the majority of their pay comes from cash receipts.
Real-life example: There is a man that works the morning shift at "Cracker Barrel." He has four children and a wife. The only income he brings to the family is from that job at Cracker Barrel. He is the sole support of that family. He owns a house. Needless to say, his income from the tips paid to him by his customers is considerable. Just because the government has a national emergency that keeps him and the rest of his family at home with the understanding there are no more tips because the restaurant is pick up or delivery only.
That man should be receiving unemployment to the full extent of his income.
So, the needs of Americans are a weekly income they can count on from their state unemployment. The weeks of unemployment they receive those benefits have to be extended to at least three months with an understanding they might have to be extended another three months, with a total of six months.
Any person diagnosed with COVID-19 immediately receives Medicaid as does his or her family to test them and catch the virus early. Every health insurance in the country is to be required to cover any member from diagnosis through the return of good health.
Married couples are not the only people that need to be tested if one is found to be positive. There are many people, especially young people, that have roommates, etc. The living arrangement of all the people involved is more important than a certificate of marriage.
Companies are open and people are working where there is a demand. Warehouses and trucking companies are still working in many instances. There are industries such as the car industry that are experiencing a slow down.
The focus of the help being legislated by the USA Congress must be to address the well being and needs of the American people.
Goldman Sachs gives CEO David Solomon massive pay raise as Wall Streets demands to bail out. THERE WILL BE NO BAILOUTS! If financial markets are ailing, it is their own fault. It is called mismanagement.
The government is responsible for the people and not CEO PAY HIKES. Just because financial companies are finding their bottom line disappear doesn't mean any of the people working for that firm haven't bailed on the very company they want to have bailed out by the American people. NO!
A clear example of "those in the know" and the way they bailed on companies to protect their wealth is Senator Richard Burr. Other US Senators were protected by their BLIND TRUST MANAGERS. THAT MEANS WALL STREET KNEW FULL WELL HOW TO PROTECT ITSELF.
March 19, 2020
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First it was South Dakota and now it is Iowa. THIS IS NOT OKAY. There should be NO DISCRIMINATION as to who is tested if they are presenting with illness. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
"Sick Iowans are denied coronavirus screening, they fear narrow testing criteria may endanger public health"
March 19, 2020
By Jason Clayworth and Barbara Rodriguez
Dennis Smith’s 66-year-old wife (click here) — released recently from nursing care, overweight and suffering from a lung infection — was told Tuesday that she didn’t need a coronavirus test.
Stacey Snyder’s son — a 23-year-old public school teacher in Mount Pleasant who was hospitalized last week for pneumonia — was also denied a test.
And Dr. Daryl Granner’s neighbor — who had coffee with an Iowa City traveler to Egypt who was shortly thereafter diagnosed with COVID-19 — has gone untested despite requesting it for more than a week.
They are among the Iowans frustrated with testing criteria they fear may be jeopardizing human life in the midst of a pandemic. Meanwhile, the state's public health department is releasing less information about test results than officials in some other states....
There are not enough tests. The ones that exist are not being used equitably. And if this continues Americans will be dying for absolute neglect of the government.
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