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Today’s updated Economic Outlook by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) should serve as a call to action.  CBO unambiguously projects a challenge of unprecedented scale and scope.  Even after the extraordinary economic response in the CARES Act, unemployment will remain much higher and economic activity much lower for far longer than should be acceptable to any of us.   

While the jobs numbers released today demonstrate an improvement from the period after this pandemic first forced the closure of large parts of our economy, the sharp rise in COVID-19 cases and the subsequent decision in many states to pause or reverse re-opening plans threatens to halt the economic progress we had been making and further delay the recovery for millions of Americans who remain out of work.  Having recovered one-third of jobs lost to this crisis is good news; but the reality that two-thirds of Americans who lost their jobs are still out of work is a sobering reality.  As the extraordinary response of the CARES Act winds down, we are still a long way from a full recovery.
 

Because of its unfree and rigged process, we may never know the real results of today’s referendum in Russia. But the outcome will surely be many more years of dictatorial rule by Vladimir Putin, an autocrat with an iron grip over his people and whose record of aggression and human rights violations rivals that of the czars of old. This is the man praised and admired by President Trump.