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Monday, June 28th, 2021

Unemployment wasn’t keeping people from work as Republicans claimed — data shows something else could be happening

Author:     Sarah K. Burris
Source:     Raw Story
Publication Date:     27 June 2021
 Link: Unemployment wasn’t keeping people from work as Republicans claimed — data shows something else could be happening
Stephan:   As with most Republican assertions, the belief that social support from the government keeps people from going back to work is factually wrong. Here's the data. This was completely predictable. Easy to predict, in fact. If a policy doesn't foster wellbeing it is the wrong option to pick. But when you are wedded to an ideology that is not fact-based apparently you can't see that, or you can and have other priorities than wellbeing. But the culture is shifting as this article explains.
A representative speaks with a jobseeker while holding an information packet during a U.S. Census Bureau 2020 job opportunities workshop at a senior center on Roosevelt Island in New York, U.S., on Thursday, July 11, 2019. President Donald Trump will retreat from his effort to include a citizenship question in the decennial census after a defeat at the Supreme Court, and will seek the information through other means. Credit: David ‘Dee’ Delgado/Bloomberg/Getty

Republicans promoted the conspiracy theory that Americans weren’t going back to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic because they were too busy living the comfortable life on the U.S. dime. Data now shows that they were wrong.

The New York Times reported Sunday that in Missouri when federal pay for the unemployed was scrapped, workers still were being choosy. Gov. Mike Parson (R) proudly proclaimed that his state would be among the first to kill unemployment benefits. It still hasn’t worked, however.

“Work-force development officials said they had seen virtually no uptick in applicants since the governor’s announcement, which ended a $300 weekly supplement to other benefits,” said the report. […]

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1 Comment

  1. Lori on Monday, June 28, 2021 at 8:24 am

    Even aside from fact, a person with a minimal amount of common sense, should know that assistance from the government, has never been nor will be – enough to pay even modern day rent alone.