Pakistan economy: Price spikes, political woes hit millions
bbc.com By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News Daily-wage labourer Asif Maseeh wakes up each day wondering how he will feed his family of seven. “We just pray to God that we’ll […]
Don’t be misled by today’s unemployment figures – a hurricane of job losses is coming
We can reasonably expect the number of people in the UK out of work to rise to between three and four million – a far graver toll, at the upper […]
It’s not just a second wave of the coronavirus we’re facing, but of unemployment too
If employers know that the government’s payroll support will be suddenly cut off at the end of June it’s inevitable that many will be thinking of starting to shed staff now https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-uk-job-cuts-furlough-unemployment-redundant-treasury-a9489881.html?jwsource=cl (video link) Ben Chu @Benchu_ 12 hours ago The historian AJP Taylor argued that the […]
26 million job losses prove a sad fact about American businesses — and American people
What is remarkable is how quickly the bonds of employer and employee are severed in the American economy, and how quickly businesses — but not their employees — get handouts […]