Posted on 05/14/2021 6:50:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA
More than 2 million workers could see their jobless benefits slashed or eliminated altogether next month as more states opt out of federal unemployment programs. Some of the hardest hit will be out-of-work Black Americans.
“The states are giving them 30 days to find a job,” Andrew Stettner, an unemployment insurance expert and senior fellow at the Century Foundation, told Yahoo Money. “Most of those workers won’t find a job within those 30 days. Most of them are going to have zero in unemployment benefits.”
Those workers stand to collectively lose $10.9 billion, averaging out to potentially thousands of dollars per worker, money that also won’t flow into those states’ economies, according to an analysis by the Century Foundation.
Eighteen states so far plan to cancel the pandemic-era jobless programs. Alaska and West Virginia were the latest states to opt out on Friday, a move gaining steam among Republican governors following last week's disappointing jobs report.
“More than 50 local employers have posted recruitments, and the response has been very positive. Employer demand for workers is outpacing job applicants,” Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Dr. Tamika L. Ledbetter said in a statement on Friday. “For those seeking employment, the time is now.”...
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This could bode well for red states. Maybe their lazy folks will move to a blue state 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I wonder what will happen when certain types of people react badly to being told they have to work instead of lie around and have taxpayers support them?
Certain types who like to burn buildings and loot stores and break car windows of people taking their families downtown.
I wonder.
What they’re probably not saying is that the Precious Minorities who can’t get jobs mostly live in Rat cesspool urban areas from which businesses and people (who aren’t wards of the State) are fleeing. The leftist do-gooders will keep ramming thru new bennies for this permanent voting bloc until such time as sanity is restored in Congress (which anyway still means driving to the ultimate collapse of the Old Republic, just at a slower pace).
Smart states doing what the FedGov should be doing. Job numbers will be over 1M and Xiden will get the credit. Pathetic little troll he is. Damn Alzheimer, dementia, crazy old fool (communist) that he is. Guaranteed that MSM orgasms over the next 2 month job numbers.
Some of the hardest hit are african Americans. Do they cut and past this sentence in every article.
Get a job
Sha na na na Sha na na na na
Get a job…..
One could look at it as a (personal) business decision.
Sucking at the gov teat is addictive. Time to go cold turkey and get your ass of the couch. Put the pipe down and get a job.
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I got a government check at one period in my life for 4 solid years but then I got my honorable discharge and had to give it up.
Considering that I just moved money to pay my taxes today I am all in favor of getting these lazy parasites up off the couch and into jobs.
Plenty of available jobs, all over.
And the de facto $15 minimum wage is here, whether codified or not.
No, Businesses are closing because they can’t find workers who WILL WORK! Don’t give me the BS about a “living wage..” if you don’t like the pay, find a better job!! This is madness!
Jobs all over Oregon too and gov. Brown just extended benefits!
FedEx, UPS, and many other ABOVE minimum wage jobs.
NO WAY Chomo Joe and the democrats will allow a lapse in welfare.
I ran in to a cohort offering $35 an hour for entry level on the job trained pipe fitters. Can’t get anyone. I have a specialized engineering discipline and now, after a year and a half of zero work because of kung flu, have people calling again. I upped my rate an extra 30 an hour and have more work then I can handle.
I know lots of small business owners and they are all at their wits end. They survived the ridiculous “pandemic” and, now that they are open again, simply cannot find labor. It’s the same all over the country. It’s time for some tough love in the labor market.
Now those out-of-work black Americans can put their looted work boots to good, productive use.
“Those workers stand to collectively lose $10.9 billion...”
Aaargh! They’re not going to lose a damned cent. Nobody’s going to come around and take their wallets. They just won’t get as much other people’s money as they’d like, which isn’t the same at all.
The MSM will manage to find the one out of a million with a real disability and a real sob story and write it up as if that is Every Man.
We must wonder if there is now the objective to cause riots and other chaos over the cutting off of benefits.
Back in the ‘60’s, my father was the mayor of a small town in NJ (and a Democrat, no less). One day, some vagrant showed up at the township municipal building, looking for a handout. He was told to come back the following Monday, to work doing cleanup jobs, for which he would be paid. They never saw his sorry, loser butt again.
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