Instacart grocery shopping and delivery workers are striking today to call for better pay and sick leave benefits based on their increased exposure to the coronavirus. smasunaga reports:
Until now, the voices warning against prematurely lifting stringent social regulations to combat the novel coronavirus have been those of doctors and epidemiologists.The
assembled by the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago was asked to opine on coronavirus policy in three respects.
The economists agreed or strongly agreed with all three suggestions. Although a handful didn’t answer all the questions or said they were “uncertain,” not a single one disagreed. The Booth school regularly polls its economist panel on questions of public policy. Over the past year, the topics have included healthcare reform, Trump’s trade war with China, Brexit, bitcoin, wealth taxes and the college admissions scandal.
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