50% of Americans Financially affected by Coronavirus
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We ran the numbers: There are 1565 news articles covering this topic. 34% (527) are left leaning, 44% (693) center, 22% (345) right leaning.
Half the country has been personally economically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. While left-leaning articles highlight that despite the high death toll, the Trump administration continues to claim that their handling of the pandemic is a “great success story,” right-leaning articles highlight that half of U.S. workers make more money through unemployment than jobs before the pandemic.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said on “Fox and Friends” Wednesday morning that the way the federal government has handled the coronavirus pandemic is a “great success story,” even though more than 59,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, which is far more than in any other country on earth. The article states that the president and those who work for him clearly believe that if they repeat over and over again that everything is going great, the public will believe it.
NPR published a centrist article reporting that fifty percent of Americans said that they or someone in their household has either lost hours or a job because of the coronavirus. Further, eighty percent or more of people who responded do not want schools, restaurants, or large sporting events to start taking place as normal again until there is further testing.
New York Post highlights that about half of all U.S. workers could reportedly make more money through unemployment than when they had jobs before the coronavirus pandemic. Although more than 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits during the pandemic, many have waited more than a month to get their funds as they “navigate a mess of bureaucratic red tape.”
From the left
Nearly 60k Americans are dead. The Trump administration says it’s a great success.
Washington Post