<p>Even though the government ordered businesses to shut down for public health purposes, sending an economic shockwave across America, former Fox News contributor and left-wing political pundit Sally Kohn says it&#8217;s false to say businesses were &#8220;forced&#8221; to layoff employees.</p>
<p>In a series of tweets on Thursday, Kohn, who regularly appears on CNN, said that while she acknowledges CEOs have been put in a difficult position, she ultimately felt that they have been falsely portrayed as victims.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really tired of reading how business owners are &#8216;forced&#8217; to layoff workers,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;No one made them do that. They *chose* to do that. Not saying it isn&#8217;t a hard choice, during a hard time, but to say they were *forced* obscures their agency AND casts owners/CEOs as the victims.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1248238463327121408?s=20">https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1248238463327121408?s=20</a></p>
<p>Naturally, Kohn&#8217;s tweet prompted swift backlash, with people noting that businesses have no money to pay people, which would mean they were forced to lay people off due to economic circumstances.</p>
<p>&#8220;A business literally not having the money to pay their employees is not a choice,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1248289109887660036?s=20">tweeted</a> political commentator Lauren Chen. &#8220;You could say &#8216;It&#8217;s still a choice to lay them off, even if they can&#8217;t pay them.&#8217; But then that would force employees to quit, potentially making them ineligible for certain unemployment benefits. I&#8217;m guessing you&#8217;ve never had to deal with payroll, accounting, or unemployment policy if you really don&#8217;t understand why you&#8217;re getting a ratio right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was literally forced, literally, by the cold hard fact that I now don&#8217;t have a business income stream to pay all my people. Its called math,&#8221; responded one user.</p>
<p>&#8220;Companies do not want to lay off workers,&#8221; responded another user. &#8220;It has been almost impossible lately to find dedicated and drug-free help. Then they need trained. All of that costs money. No one is laying off people right now if they can afford to keep them on.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not a business owner, but if the business can&#8217;t pay employees right now because there are no customers, doesn&#8217;t letting them go allow them to file for unemployment? It seems like local business owners here have been pretty distraught about letting go of their staff,&#8221; responded another.</p>
<p>After this ratio went on for hours, Sally Kohn later responded to her critics, accusing them of lacking nuance and that it enables CEOs to exploit workers in other ways.</p>
<p>&#8220;Grasp the nuance of what I&#8217;m saying. I am NOT saying that it&#8217;s not a hard, sometimes impossible decision. But it&#8217;s still a DECISION. A CHOICE,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Think about the meaning/implications of the word forced. No one is literally being forced to layoff workers.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;AND that attitude in general, that business owners/CEOs take certain steps because they HAVE TO as opposed to because they CHOOSE TO, helps mask exploitation of workers in general in a million other ways — &#8216;have no choice&#8217; but to pay low wages, no benefits, etc.&#8221; she concluded.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1248246071274303490?s=20">https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/1248246071274303490?s=20</a></p>
<p>As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unemployment-claims-top-6-million-for-second-straight-week-even-higher-than-predicted">reported</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Tim Pearce, approximately 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment in the past week, even higher than what economists predicted.</p>

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