FOCUS | Wilbur Ross: Unpaid Workers Should "Take Out a Loan" and Quit Bitching

24 January 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News EXTREME DIFFICULTY WITH DONATIONS NOW - We have a trickle of very small donations coming but overall we are making little or no progress. #DonationsSeriouslyMatter / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS | Wilbur Ross: Unpaid Workers Should "Take Out a Loan" and Quit Bitching  Bess Levin, Vanity Fair  Elsewhere in the interview historians will pinpoint as the spark that ignited the peasant revolt, Ross told Andrew Ross Sorkin and Becky Quick that he doesn’t “quite understand why” unpaid workers have been forced to turn to food banks, and downplayed the missed paychecks as “a third of a percent on our G.D.P. So it’s just like it’s a gigantic number.” Aaron Rupar ✔@atrupar CNBC: Secretary Ross, do you worry about safety at airports amid the shutdown? ROSS: I do, & it's disappointing that air traffic controllers are calling in sick CNBC: Many of them can't afford to support their families ROSS: Well, remember, they are eventually going to be paid 2,327 9:10 AM - Jan 24, 2019 2,573 people are talking about this Levin writes: "Quick: the government has been closed for 34 days, and come Saturday, 800,000 federal workers are going to go without a paycheck for the second time this month. Who do you put on live TV to discuss a situation wherein thousands of people can't pay for food or rent through literally no fault of their own? Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration's resident reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, of course!" READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation