Posted on 04/23/2021 12:49:05 PM PDT by karpov
WASHINGTON—Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing for the White House to propose more generous and long-lasting jobless benefits on a permanent basis as part of the antipoverty package President Biden is expected to roll out next week.
In a letter sent to the White House Friday, nearly 40 Democrats said President Biden should propose implementing a series of new federal standards of unemployment insurance programs, which are largely run by states. They proposed increasing the amount of jobless payments, extending the duration of the weekly benefit, expanding the pool of eligible workers, and implementing a system that would more closely tie the payments to economic conditions.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, Congress has taken several temporary measures to bolster jobless payments, including increasing weekly payments and offering support to more workers. Most recently Congress extended a $300 weekly supplement until early September, among other steps.
But the lawmakers are seeking more permanent changes to the social -safety net program.
“The Cares Act’s emergency programs must be extended to support jobless workers for the duration of the current economic downturn, but we must also fix the underlying problems facing our [unemployment insurance] system so that it can provide economic security for all workers,” they wrote in the letter, referencing the $2.2 trillion Cares Act passed last year that first added a federal supplement.
The White House has been studying possible unemployment insurance changes, according to a person familiar with the matter, and Democrats on Capitol Hill have been discussing the issue with the administration. But it isn’t known if the White House will address the issue in their coming plan, which is expected to be released next week and includes more than $1 trillion in funding for paid leave, tuition-free community college, and universal prekindergarten.
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ie universal income
that’s what this would be
Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden has ordered a money bomb campaign.
Ten B-52s fully loaded with $100 bills will carpet bomb urban areas of alleged social disadvantage.
ping
“The democrats want their Slaves back”
Nobody wanted their slaves back after sharecropping was introduced.
“economic security for all workers”
I’d sort of like some assurance that my American dollars will still buy stuff in 2023.
STONKS!!! The to MOOOOOON!!!!
“make permanent enhanced direct payments for child EIC”
There are no special federal programs for BMW lease payments, car insurance, cable TV and European vacations.
If you expect people to vote every damn election, you gotta provide some incentives.
Whatever it takes for commies/democrats to bankrupt the county, sow
dissent, undermine businesses ... that’s what they’ll be for...
In that case these “elites” will be in the work camps with the rest of us.
When commies take over they'll put people in prison who won't work... that's what happened in Cuba. That's what will happen here. All that 'caring' is only to hood-wink the gullible.
“How about you?”
About three weeks per year in four-star hotels in top locales would do for now.
Soviet Union under Stalin used slave labor all the time.
Exactly, all they are doing is breaking the system, so they can apply the “fix”.
I am always amazed by the vehicles the “poor” show up in when they come to collect “free food boxes” given out by local charities in Upstate South Carolina. Beamers and Caddys galore.
“Article 42
“Citizens of the People’s Republic of China have the right as well as the duty to work....Work is the glorious duty of every able-bodied citizen....”
https://china.usc.edu/constitution-peoples-republic-china-1982
And lose the privilege to vote.
Trying to make the rest of America as worthless as DemonRatz.
I have a nephew who was a computer draftsman. He is now on unemployment and finds it more attractive.
A Fire Brother is doing renovations to 14 hair salons, he needs painters, $20 an hour, no takers at all. Do NOT allow this.
The Republicans could counter the unemployment extension with a proposal to provide government grants to small businesses to buy robots instead of payroll on useless carbon-based life forms. As long as the robots are not White, of course.
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