Mark Cuban Says Government Should Hire Unemployed for COVID Testing

Mark Cuban is challenging the federal government to rejigger the economy NOW … by hiring some of the millions of people who are out of work and retraining them to become useful in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Cuban demanded answers … “Explain to me why in the midst of 50m people unemployed or underemployed, the gov isn’t hiring and training MILLIONS to do Tracking/Tracing, Caring/Supporting at risk populations and sanitization work? And now is the time to train/pay stay at home parents/caregivers as well.”

It’s an idea that was obliquely hatched during the Democratic presidential debates, by folks like Andrew Yang and others … to scramble the economy and find new ways of supporting an increasingly struggling workforce.

We talked to California Governor Gavin Newsom on “TMZ Live” a couple weeks ago about his new program — Californians For All — encouraging young people to volunteer to help.  We asked if this could be the start of something like FDR’s New Deal, where programs like the Work Progress Administration put out-of-work Americans to work to help the country.  Newsom seemed all about it.