For many salaried, white-collar employees, the coronavirus crisis will be burdensome, scary, even painful, but financially survivable. But that's not the case for many hourly workers. Column by hiltzikm:
Don’t just give airlines bailout money — get something from them in return.
The gap between rank-and-file workers and the rest of the American workforce has been widening since the late 1970s, largely because the productivity gains driving economic growth have been steered upward to the rich. As a result, even if they have jobs that could be performed from home during the American lockdown, they don’t have the resources to get the work done.
They don’t often have savings to tide them over from paycheck to paycheck, much less from paycheck to no paycheck.
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