Marxist Democrats Demand You Live in Poverty
(Sacramento Bee) Randy Karr isn’t sure how soon he’ll be able to reopen the doors at California Family Fitness. All he knows is that being forced to operate a health club chain outdoors — under tents, in parking lots — has made his business suffer.
The same goes for his employees, too: 1,000 of the Orangevale chain’s 1,100 employees remain furloughed as Karr struggles to navigate Gov. Gavin Newsom’s sometimes-confusing guidelines for reopening the California economy.
“There’s just so many inconsistencies,” Karr said.
Labor Day weekend found California’s job market still at the mercy of COVID-19. The state’s economy remains mired in double-digit unemployment more than six months after the coronavirus pandemic prompted the first stay-at-home orders and wiped out millions of jobs.
Even as the national economy shows fresh signs of improvement, Californians are still heading to the unemployment rolls in alarming numbers.
On Thursday, the federal Labor Department reported that 236,784 Californians filed initial claims for unemployment benefits during the week ending Aug. 29. That compared to 196,916 new claims in California the week before.
. . . . layoffs are still occurring as a result of Newsom’s mid-July decision to roll back much of the reopening of the economy during a worrisome spike in COVID-19 infections. Health clubs were among those businesses that could no longer operate indoors.
“The main factor is the renewed lockdown,” Bernick said.
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