December jobs report show that the second stimulus was too little and too late

Michael Busler
4 min readJan 12, 2021

Because of the virus flare up and the resulting shutdowns, the economy needed more and sooner.

The Labor Department’s recently released jobs report shows that the economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. That is the first month since April that there were job losses. The unemployment rate stayed constant at 6.7%. The second stimulus…

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Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.