The COVID-19 crisis has set off record levels of unemployment in Massachusetts and beyond, turning the public health crisis into an economic crisis as well. But while unions, community groups, public servants and individuals are doing all we can to help our members and neighbors, some corporations and the billionaires who own them are leaving Massachusettans high and dry.Take one-percenter Jeremy Jacobs, Jr. and family. The Jacobs family owns Delaware North, owner and operator of TD Garden, including the new mixed-use Hub on Causeway development. Jacobs is also the owner of Boston’s famed hockey team, the Bruins. Although the family is worth a cool $3.5 billion, they just furloughed tens of thousands of employees.Corporate watchdog LittleSis included Jacobs and Delaware North in its recent profile of “The Billionaires Behind the Crisis,” noting:Delaware North has more than 55,000 full-time and part-time employees. In a press release on March 25th, Delaware Northannouncedthat it was pla...
