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TexasTowelie

(116,507 posts)
Mon May 17, 2021, 07:37 PM May 2021

Beshear: Ending extra jobless aid now would hurt economy

FRANKFORT, KY. -- Cutting off the extra federal payments going to unemployed Kentuckians would hurt the state's economy as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday.

The Democratic governor said he's willing to consider ending the weekly $300 federal unemployment payment eventually but quickly added: “That doesn't mean we will.”

The Bluegrass State's most powerful Republican, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, criticized the extra federal benefits Monday. He said governors are “having to clean up this mess” as many businesses struggle to find workers.

Beshear said he's trying to “thread the needle” of maintaining the supplemental federal payments that pump tens of millions of dollars into the state's economy each week while encouraging people to go back to work as the economy fully reopens.

Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article251482338.html
(Raleigh News & Observer)

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Beshear: Ending extra jobless aid now would hurt economy (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP
Republicans will do it to try to trip up the economy. underpants May 2021 #1
50 separate state policies for the Pandemic Claire Oh Nette May 2021 #2

Claire Oh Nette

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2. 50 separate state policies for the Pandemic
Mon May 17, 2021, 09:34 PM
May 2021

because TFG abdicated any and all responsibility.

No plan to shelter in place and stay at home leads to no plan to open up leads to supply chain shortages and distribution delays.

The Federal government under TFG set minimum subsistence at $600 week, or $15 an hour. Employers have paid crap for years. The jobs going unfilled are largely restaurant server jobs that won't guarantee full time work regular shifts, offer no health care benefits and pay $2-4 an hour plus tips for restaurants not open to full capacity.

Where's the depot for that gravy train?

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