Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Congress Needs to Make State Aid Automatic

State and local austerity is worsening the recession and hurting people in need. It’s a terrible system.

December 11, 2020 at 12:30 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

Hard times.
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Democrats, and the economy, are suffering right now because Democrats 11 years ago made a critical mistake.