As States Reopen They Look to Congress for Help
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We ran the numbers: There are 1258 news articles covering this topic. 28% (356) are left leaning, 43% (544) center, 28% (358) right leaning.
As states begin to re-open at different rates, they weigh the economic and health benefits of such a decision. While left-leaning articles highlight that certain policies will have a larger impact on a speedier economic recovery, right-leaning articles argue that Democrats are delaying reopening states because it would help Trump’s re-election.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights that according to the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute, recovering from the pandemic’s economic damage will be protracted, as 42 percent of recent pandemic-induced layoffs will result in permanent job loss. However, there could be potentially large benefits from policies that facilitate “speedy reallocation of jobs, workers, and capital to newly productive uses.”
Newsweek published a centrist article reporting that on Wednesday, Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced his intention to continue lifting social distancing measures, even though the number of newly confirmed cases last week was up 26 percent from the week before. However, the article notes that the state’s increase in coronavirus cases could be due to expanded testing.
A right-leaning article by FOX Business’ Stuart Varney argues that Democratic states are “dragging their feet” in terms of reopening states amid coronavirus. He argued that Democrat governors “don’t want a quick recovery for the economy because it would help President Trump’s re-election.”