Money Is Not the Reason the U.S. Is Not Following the Danish Model

The New York Times had a good piece examining how Denmark is coping with the coronavirus crisis. According to the piece, the government is paying companies up 75 to 90 percent of workers salaries, provided they dont lay anyone off. This approach has the great advantage that it keeps workers tied to their employers, so that when the lockdowns end they have a job to go back to. It also means that employers dont have to hire and train a workforce from scratch.

However the piece claims that this...