The pandemic not only makes the poor in American getting worse, but takes a more split in American society. In fact, the pandemic did not produce inequality in society, but make it clear to people. Indeed, US billionaires’ wealth have soared since pandemic, in the contrary, the poor campaign for a rise in the national minimum wage. The connotation is that inequality is a pre-existing condition in US.
When we talk about American dream, we mean that is the ability to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But in the real world, the tension makes it harder to from rags to riches. For the low income bracket, deadlocked by attendant recession after pandemic.
Making billions v making ends meet: how the pandemic has split the US economy in two