[1Old Pro]

....The proposal suggests allowing states to choose between reducing the unemployment benefits to an 80% wage replacement rate or gradually reducing the extra benefits to — $500 per week in August, $400 per week in September, or $300 per week in October.

I'd prefer 60% wage replacement or $300/August, 0% September forward. That gives everyone a full month to get a job.

[Svartalfiar]

I'd prefer 60% wage replacement or $300/August, 0% September forward. That gives everyone a full month to get a job.

No one is getting kicked off unemployment yet anyway. The EARLIST most peoples' jobs would have cut them was in mid-March (when the shutdowns/closings first started). Most of the States have 26 weeks of UI, there's maybe seven that offer fewer. So all those people can be on unemployment until September, assuming they sit on their couch and earn $0 the whole time, since any temp work just pushes their end-of-benefit date back. BUT, FedGov also passed the PUEC or something like that, which adds another 13 weeks of UI on the US taxpayer tab. So almost anyone on UI has benefits that end, at the earliest, the first week of December. The only thing being argued now is the helicopter $600, nothing else.

So your giving everyone a month to get a job isn't accurate, they have practically til the end of the year anyway, already.