Economic shutdown: don’t forget the other 99%.

One-size-fits-all shutdowns don’t make sense. Public officials should shift their focus to reopening the economy.

  • By Matt Walsh
  • | 3:44 p.m. April 14, 2020
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Two 90-year-olds — one in Sarasota, the other in Colorado — were lamenting last Saturday the state of affairs in the U.S.

The Coloradoan said: “Our generation, the one before us and the one after us worked to build up this great, modern economy over the past 100 years, and they’ve managed to kill it in one month.”

 

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