Republicans Declare War On Federal Unemployment Insurance Benefits
States are slashing federal unemployment benefits even as the unemployment rate ticks up.
By Arthur Delaney and Igor Bobic
Red states are slashing federal unemployment benefits as Republicans and businesses complain of a “worker shortage” in the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
More Republican-led states may soon join Montana and South Carolina in cutting off the extra $300 and benefits for gig workers that Congress put in place amid unprecedented layoffs stemming from social distancing measures that have forced businesses to close or operate at reduced capacity.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) called the extra benefits a “dangerous federal entitlement, incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace.”
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Initial unemployment claims in Georgia continue to fall
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ATLANTA - First-time unemployment claims in Georgia fell last week, mirroring a nationwide trend as more Americans thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic get back on the job.
Jobless Georgians filed 28,764 initial unemployment claims last week, down 3,617 from the week before, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday.
Meanwhile, the labor department announced that 99.4% of all eligible claimants whose benefit year began in March of last year and who have requested payment have received a payment.
âWe are getting almost 80% of all eligible payments paid in 21 days or less during a pandemic,â Georgia Commissioner of Labor Mark Butler said Thursday. â That has been no small feat.â