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2020 has been a very tough year for the U.S. as a whole, but some
portions of the country have been hit much harder than others. For
example, if you live in a rural area [like I do…and we’ve prepped for years] that
hasn’t seen any civil unrest and that hasn’t been hit very hard by the COVID-19
pandemic, the way that you are living your life now may seem nearly unchanged
from the way you were living your life in 2019.
But if you live in an urban
area that has experienced endless
protests and rioting and that has seen COVID-19 sweep through local neighborhoods
like wildfire, your life in 2020 may look radically different from the way it
looked in 2019. Unfortunately, conditions in our largest cities are not
likely to improve dramatically any time soon.
But many people that live in rural communities are feeling pretty
good about things right now. Even though more
than 52 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the
last 18 weeks, the official unemployment rate in many rural counties is still
in the single digits.
New York City was one of the early epicenters of the COVID-19
pandemic in the United States, and many of us will never forget watching video
footage of the looting that took place in the heart of Manhattan earlier this
year.
As a result of all of this chaos, the unemployment rate in the
state as a whole is
nearly twice the national average…
New York’s unemployment rate rose to 20.4% last month, according
to state-level data issued Friday by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics that detailed figures for some large metro areas.
That’s up from 18.3% in May and 15% in April.
We see a very similar story when we look at the city of Los
Angeles.
Thanks to COVID-19 and endless civil unrest, the official unemployment
rate in the city is
hovering near 20 percent…
Los Angeles, the second-largest U.S. city, has seen a similar
level of joblessness.
Its unemployment rate recovered slightly in June but remains
startlingly high — at 19.5%, versus 20.6% in May, according to data published Friday by
California’s Employment Development Department.
Unfortunately, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic and the
violence in our major cities are both going to be with us for the foreseeable
future.
Some people think that the civil unrest will disappear if Joe
Biden wins in November, but I do not believe that is the case. Nearly all
of the major cities where the violence is happening are controlled by radical
Democrats, and those radical Democrats have
been completely unable to control the riots. To the protesters,
Republicans and Democrats are both two sides of the same coin and are both
responsible for the injustices in our society, and they are not going to give
up on their goals just because a moderate Democrat like Joe Biden wins the
election.
At this point, millions upon millions of Americans are sticking
closer to home these days because of COVID-19 and all the unrest, and this has
been particularly devastating for
the leisure and hospitality industries…
The unemployment rate in the leisure and hospitality industries,
including restaurants, soared from 5.7% in February to 39.3% in April, and in
June was still at an unprecedented 28.9%. By comparison, the overall
unemployment rate is 11.1%, and no other industry comes close to restaurants’
level.
The restaurant industry employed nearly 9.2 million people in
June, almost 3 million more than in April but still 25% below where it was in
February. Anecdotally, though, restaurant workers—even those who’ve spent decades
in the industry—say they’re looking to get out. The line of work that had been
stable, geographically flexible, reliable and largely safe for generations is
no more, they say.
As I discussed the
other day,
we have already lost thousands upon thousands of small and independent
restaurants, and this “restaurant apocalypse” is only going to get worse with
each passing month...[thanks in large part to Dem Governors who locked down their states].
Moving forward, some cities may never be the same again. In
Las Vegas, the official unemployment rate recently hit 29 percent, and everyone
agrees that tourism will never recover until the pandemic ends.
If this pandemic stretches on for several years, many of those
unemployed workers will be forced to abandon the city entirely in order to find
work elsewhere.
Sadly, competition for the few good jobs that are available will
become increasingly fierce, and this will result in millions of Americans
falling out of the middle class.
And we are starting to see some numbers that indicate that this
process is already moving along very quickly. According to
the U.S. Census Bureau, “24 million Americans say they have little to no chance of being
able to pay next month’s rent”.
Just think about that.
We never saw anything like this during the last recession, and the
Census Bureau says that things are particular dire for
Black and Hispanic renters…
This month, nearly 28% of Black renters say they haven’t paid last
month’s rent, and about 46% say they have slight or no confidence they’ll be
able to pay next month’s rent, according to figures from the Census Bureau’s
Household Pulse Survey. Hispanic renters face similar economic strain: 22% say
they missed last month’s rent and 46% fear they won’t make rent next month.
Those numbers are simply eye-popping. As people increasingly
get behind on their bills, the cries for more direct government
assistance will
become deafening, and it appears that Republicans and Democrats in Congress both
want to pass yet another stimulus bill.
Of course that will mean borrowing and spending more gigantic
piles of money that we do not currently have, but at this point most Americans
do not seem to care that we are literally completely destroying our financial
future.
For such a long time, I warned that the next economic downturn
would be worse than the last recession, and that has turned out to be precisely
correct.
But for most people, the only thing that seems to matter is what
is happening here and now.
And at this moment we are seeing tremendous economic suffering in
major cities all over the nation, and in an election year very few of our
politicians want to be the “bad guy” that says that we can’t hand out “free
money” to everyone.
So our currency will continue to be rapidly devalued, our debt
levels will continue to explode, and we shall get to see where this relentless
march toward socialism takes us.
About the Author: I am a
voice crying out for change in a society that generally seems content to stay
asleep. My name is Michael Snyder and I am the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the
articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other
prominent websites all over the globe. I have written four books that are
available on Amazon.com including The
Beginning Of The End, Get Prepared Now
Sidebar:
Who hasn’t noticed the price of
food drastically increasing? For many, in a time of job insecurity, continued
economic uncertainty it’s infuriating and borders on the line of price gouging.
In April, when the pandemic panic was at its peak, the price of groceries rose
2.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, resulting in the
biggest one-month increase in grocery prices since 1974. The Wall Street
Journal has further reported these price fluctuations are the
fastest-rising food prices in a decade and it looks like this won’t disappear
anything soon.
Planning for a future of food price inflation now will help you save money and invest in your future. Price inflation and shortages of food and/or essential preparedness items will only continue as long as COVID is present. As much as we would like for this to all go away, it will not.
Planning for a future of food price inflation now will help you save money and invest in your future. Price inflation and shortages of food and/or essential preparedness items will only continue as long as COVID is present. As much as we would like for this to all go away, it will not.
Here are some ways to
concentrate your shopping efforts before the next panic wave of pandemic
shopping happens.
READ MORE: How To Avoid the Fastest Rising
Food Prices in a Decade
Other Bits n Pieces
Our cities are being destroyed and Democrat mayors and officials
are defunding the police and encouraging the vandals and the arsonists, calling
them “peaceful protesters.”
This new civil war now pits those of us who love our country and
want a Constitutional government, as envisioned by our Founders, against those who would destroy our
very civilization and freedoms.
Donald Trump is now the defender of our laws and our country,
the leader of those of us who believe in America and want to keep our
Constitution, and want our cities to be safe again.
Whole city
areas have been seized by anarchists...
“Protesters” who claimed they only opposed Confederate monuments
have now sought to deface and destroy
the monuments of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and
more of our American heroes.
They sought to burn a church across from the White House, one
visited by every president since John Adams.
These radicals have gone well beyond where most people ever
imagined. But it was no surprise to me because I was raised by leftists and
understood the depth of their hatred for America.
Shockingly, these enemies of America have been accepted and supported by the
establishment media and the leadership of the Democratic Party
He is our leader and freedom fighter
P.S. As you already know,
however, it's this simple: one-world government and one-world religion require
one-world propaganda.
Until one understands this fact, one cannot read between the lines
or otherwise decipher mass media reports, thus begin to make sense of the
"global loonies" and their "globaloney."
Powerful Picture Exposes The Double Standard Politicians Allow
For Themselves On Social Distancing: Americans
nationwide continue to be impacted by coronavirus-related restrictions
implemented by their state leaders...Read More
Teacher Details How Schools Push To Ban History And Leftist
Agendas: I recently spoke with a fourth grade teacher from the midwest,
who shared her experiences of curriculum shifting from history and science and
towards political indoctrination...Read More
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Essential Guns for When
SHTF
Taking a look at the
5 guns you may need in an
SHTF Situation and the various reasons for each type of firearm for survival.
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This brew is a powerful painkiller,
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Once used for everything from
painful toothaches to leg amputations.
It helped save many lives and
prevent trauma. If you made it in advance.
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