Political Quotes

“shortly, I will offer a unanimous consent request on legislation to extend enhanced unemployment insurance for folks in America who are out of work. I am going to begin with a quick check-in on the economic reality in our country. Here is where we are in a sentence: Only half of the jobs lost earlier this year have actually come back; the other half may never come back. There is substantial evidence that many of these jobs will be lost forever. The permanent layoffs are stacking up. Right now, 25 million Americans are receiving unemployment insurance. Their insurance payments were slashed when Republicans let enhanced unemployment insurance expire at the end of July. Here is a particularly important fact. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment insurance is still higher than any single week during the great recession. Upward of 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty over just the last few months. In the month of September alone--just September--nearly 1 million women dropped out of the workforce. To make matters worse, the pandemic that is causing all of this economic carnage is just getting worse as the fall coronavirus wave begins to rise across the country. The restaurant and bar industry has been hurt, and the travel industry, the live entertainment industry.…”