Democrats and their liberal economic advisers obsess about income inequality. Will someone please tell them that no act in modern times has widened the gap between the rich and the poor more than the coronavirus lockdowns going on right now?
Diane Yentel, the president and CEO of the leftist National Low Income Housing Coalition, said: "The majority of the up to 17 million households at risk of losing their homes this winter are people of color." Politico reported that minorities and the poor have "been more vulnerable to job and income losses from the ensuing economic crisis, in large part because Black and Latino workers are over-represented in the service industries wiped out by shutdowns." James Parrott, an economist at the New York.