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As White House crafts economic agenda, worker benefits are front-of-mind
Becker's Hospital Review ^ | December 22, 2022 | Alexis Kayser

Posted on 12/25/2022 4:24:46 PM PST by buckalfa

Over the holiday break, White House economic officials are expected to brief President Joe Biden on their priorities for the coming year. They are considering a push for more employee benefits to bring people back to the workforce, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 21.

"Where are places where we can lower price pressures in the economy, lower costs for consumers and increase the productive potential of the economy? The things that we will prioritize and focus on will be in that area," Brian Deese, the director of the White House's National Economic Council, told the Journal.

Mr. Deese did not specify what will be presented to President Biden, but the White House previously advocated for paid family leave, universal prekindergarten and permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit. Passing these items may be more difficult when Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives next year, the Journal reported.

However, many economists say that expanded child care benefits will help get young women — a group which has been underrepresented in the labor market — back into it.

"When we look at areas where we can make progress, one is on helping working parents," Mr. Deese told the Journal. "Providing quality, affordable child care actually helps to reduce cost burdens on families and gets more people working."

The administration is also looking at workforce training models to connect people with high-growth opportunities, as well as ways to reduce housing costs, according to the Journal.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: benefits; employee; planning; workforce
With apologies to John Fogerty:

Five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains ----

1 posted on 12/25/2022 4:24:46 PM PST by buckalfa
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To: buckalfa

Was this pile of steaming excrement wrapped in plastic?


2 posted on 12/25/2022 4:34:51 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: buckalfa
"worker benefits are front-of-mind."

Well now, that's not so comforting, is it.?

I mean, are they thinking of taxing worker health benefits as income??

Or maybe raiding the workers 401K savings accounts?

Only the true commies know for sure..

Tune in tomorrow for another episode of "How the rat lawyers destroyed America"... (spit)

3 posted on 12/25/2022 4:36:24 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: buckalfa

You’ll see student loan write-offs make a comeback for the 2024 campaign. It worked well in 2022.


4 posted on 12/25/2022 4:39:32 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: buckalfa

They are considering a push for more employee benefits to bring people back to the workforce...

Not a care in the world about who is going to pay for
those benefits...maybe the Santa Clause?


5 posted on 12/25/2022 4:45:09 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: buckalfa
"Where are places where we can lower price pressures in the economy, lower costs for consumers and increase the productive potential of the economy?

Thank God for our federal government! Without FedGov, can anybody even imagine how awful our lives would be?

6 posted on 12/25/2022 4:45:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: tet68

Just sign another $1.5 TRILLION Porkulus. Money is free! We can thank our great-great grandchildren when we meet them at the Pearly Gates.


7 posted on 12/25/2022 4:47:36 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: buckalfa
They are considering a push for more employee benefits to bring people back to the workforce.

The only incentive for able-bodied people to return to the workforce should be homelessness and starving.
8 posted on 12/25/2022 4:49:32 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Where are places where we can lower price pressures in the economy, lower costs for consumers and increase the productive potential of the economy?


Washington DC


9 posted on 12/25/2022 4:50:28 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Kenny Bania

Yes, exactly. Homelessness and starving do sharpen the mind and make one want to work harder and be more successful. We’ve made it it far to easy to be a bum and get by.


10 posted on 12/25/2022 4:55:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: unread

You gotta credit their ingenuity threatening to tax employer based health insurance as income to get people to accept socialized medicine!


11 posted on 12/25/2022 4:59:25 PM PST by 100%FEDUP
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To: buckalfa

worker benefits?
at the expense of the employer?

their goal is to shut down small businesses


12 posted on 12/25/2022 5:35:49 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: unread

everything the government touches turns to crap


13 posted on 12/25/2022 5:36:43 PM PST by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: SisterK
"their goal is to shut down small businesses"

Absolutely right, plus driving prices and inflation even higher.

14 posted on 12/25/2022 5:55:29 PM PST by Truth29
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

$1.7T of which $500B is pork and graft. It’s lunacy.


15 posted on 12/25/2022 7:00:33 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....l)
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To: buckalfa

They are considering a push for more employee benefits to bring people back to the workforce.

White House economic officials still in backasswards mode stop paying them to stay home.

NY unemployment +other benefits 100K a tear NJ 70k many other states not far behind.

Chaos crew on duty


16 posted on 12/26/2022 8:39:20 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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