Chatter about HS seniors putting off college for a year.
Complete disaster from an income standpoint for universities.
I would love a big government outreach program to high school seniors to become contact tracers for a year. Pay them a good wage and maybe offer some kind of tuition assistance afterwards.
Great idea.
Agreed.
I think some students will enroll in some online courses that will be accepted by their university. College seniors will try to finish online. So that will keep some institutions afloat.
But yeah small private college won’t make it out of this without a massive infusion of cash.
You do see Trump is actively forcing all blame onto other people (states, governors, individual citizens) while trying to take all good credit right?
Even the Juggalos are taking this more seriously than the GOP.
Every aspect of a bad government response is on display. The national guidelines were a good idea but they were so abstract that it was still pretty much do whatever the fuck you want. People want leadership, well at least 80% of people, and they aren't getting it. Even the orders to open up should be uniform and adhere to the same guidelines. With Georgia's open back up there are no real concrete guidelines on how to do so, just more you do whats best. That might work for the small percentage of people protesting, but those vague direction isnt going to fly with the rest, so those people are just going to stay home. There's no magic we return to normal but for some reason the small minority and the dishits in charge think that will be the case.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is among a bipartisan group of lawmakers who want to broaden the program significantly, to take in more companies.
Such a move would be expensive, but the government is already putting out piles of money through unemployment insurance, Hawley said in a recent interview on KMOX-AM in St. Louis.
"Wouldn't it be better to keep people's jobs, keep them employed, give them that security and get ready to work again when we open this economy back up?" Hawley said.
Among the skeptics is Jason Furman, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama.
Programs like PPP end up funneling money to companies that don't really need it and probably would survive the pandemic without help, Furman says.