US conflicted over economic response to ‘public health emergency’

US Studies Centre lecturer Gorana Grgic says balancing the government’s economic and health response to the coronavirus has led to conflict between federal and state governments. Ms Grgic told Sky News there was a “kind of partisan divide” between the states and federal responses to the pandemic. “Absolutely we see now the contrast in terms of some of these social safety net programs from the kind of job security, sick leave, some of these rights not being as expanded and a lot of people now finding themselves jobless," she said. “They are finding themselves very vulnerable now given that they don’t have basic health care and health coverage, and this is obviously a public health emergency in the first place.” Image: AP

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