Massive layoffs are likely coming to state and local governments as federal aid goes elsewhere
State and local governments received aid under the $2.2 trillion CARES Act signed late last month, but they are pleading for new relief as Congress prepares to pass a bill to help small businesses and hospitals.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to revisit the issue in the coming round of negotiations over what could be an even bigger package of relief. "The approaching state budget cuts … will cause the U.S. economy to contract further — making the economic downturn deeper and more protracted, causing many more people to lose their jobs, and magnifying the serious hardship we already see," CBPP President Robert Greenstein said.
A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past the New York State Department of Labor building in the Queens borough of New York, U.S., on Tuesday, April 14, 2020."If you were to ask the average American, they are grateful for what these workers are doing," AFSCME President Lee Saunders said. "Then all of a sudden they get a pink slip? I think the average American would say, 'Whoa, whoa whoa. Wait, that's not right.
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