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RandySF

(58,911 posts) Thu Apr 2, 2020, 03:49 PM Apr 2020

Unemployment Rate Expected to Stay High Through 2021

The scariest line in the CBO’s updated economic report to account for the coronavirus pandemic:

“CBO expected the effects of job losses and business closures to be felt for some time; the unemployment rate underlying the cost estimate was 9 percent at the end of 2021.”

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/02/unemployment-rate-expected-to-stay-high-through-2021/

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Unemployment Rate Expected to Stay High Through 2021 (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2020 OP

K&R, was talking to a buddy the other day that said this is going to last 4 months minimum but I ... uponit7771 Apr 2020 #1

uponit7771

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1. K&R, was talking to a buddy the other day that said this is going to last 4 months minimum but I ...

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Thu Apr 2, 2020, 03:52 PM

Apr 2020

... think he voted for Trump so he didn't want to blame his slow reaction on what's happening.

My other friend that was on the phone that's totally non politico or doesn't pay attention to the news at all said it was Trump saying this was a hoax that guy us where we're at now.

That's a good thing

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