Posted on 05/07/2021 6:11:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called on the White House to end expanded federal unemployment benefits that were implemented during last year’s pandemic relief efforts, saying the extra monthly payments are hurting the economy by keeping workers out of the labor market.
On Friday, the Department of Labor reported just 266,000 new jobs created in April, which is far lower than the 1 million jobs that were expected by some analysts.
Now, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the largest business lobbying groups, said that it’s “clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market” and argued that the $300 weekly extra payments are keeping people from working.
“We need a comprehensive approach to dealing with our workforce issues and the very real threat unfilled positions poses to our economic recovery from the pandemic,” said the group’s executive vice president, Neil Bradley. “One step policymakers should take now is ending the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit. Based on the Chamber’s analysis, the $300 benefit results in approximately one in four recipients taking home more in unemployment than they earned working.”
President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter Friday in the East Room of the White House about whether the enhanced unemployment benefits are hurting the U.S. recovery. He said, “No.”
Meanwhile, Republicans used the weak jobs report to say that the benefits are too generous.
“The government pays people big bucks NOT to work so they don’t!,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) wrote on Twitter. “DUH! Socialism seems nice but in fact is destructive. America: learn or lose!”
Democrats said that companies aren’t offering high-enough wages or subsidized childcare programs, while some say that the report suggests that Congress needs to pass Biden’s infrastructure bills.
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Chamber of Commies said that? Nobody wins...
The US Chamber of Commerce can kiss my ass. Although I happen to agree here they are a bunch of corporate socialist.
The U.S. Chamber of Communists don’t care a hoot in hell for the average worker. They just stick their finger in the wind and mumble all the right things, until it impacts their bottom line.
Thatcher said it best..It’s all fun and games until you run out of other people’s money
It only took Biden/Harris, Pilousy and Schmuzzer 100 days to destroy the US economy. Welcome to Biden’s Banana Republic!
A lot of home health aides are staying home, one field that has been affected, unemployment pays more.
I want high wages and a tight labor market, companies competing against each other to hire Americans. I don’t companies competing against the government, while the taxpayers fund its largesse. The teat suckers might, maybe, be grateful to the government and the Dem politicians, but they couldn’t care less about the taxpayers.
Montana and South Carolina governors have announced they're going to discontinue the $300 a week federal supplement in a few weeks so they can get the freeloaders back to work. I'll bet more states follow suit soon. It's going to take states taking the initiative, Biden and the feds would be happy to have everybody in the country on this juiced up welfare for eternity. Let the blue states crush their economies while the red states open up and flourish.
They’re right for the wrong reason.
They only care about themselves. They’d prefer that all small businesses go extinct.
They don’t care if the pie is smaller, they just want the whole pie.
Bite it, Chamber of Commies.
2 Thessalonians 3:9-11
Authorized (King James) Version
9 not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. 10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. 11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Apparently the low wage illegals aren’t coming over the border fast enough to satisfy the Chamber and it’s willing to (for the time being) actually hire Americans.
Ironic. The chamber is all for socialism until the consequences appear.
Is this the same Chamber of Commerce that worked as hard as they could to get rid of Trump the man who built the best economy the world has ever seen until the Chinese/neocon/globalist virus was released?
THAT Chamber of Commerce?
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