Biden and Republicans spar over unemployment as the jobs report disappoints. Jim Tankersley © Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times President Biden and his administration are under pressure from critics to end an expanded benefit for the unemployed.
A disappointing jobs report released Friday by the Labor Department is posing the greatest test yet of President Biden’s strategy to revive the pandemic economic recovery, with business groups and Republicans pushing the president to end an expanded benefit for the unemployed that they say is causing a labor shortage and risking runaway inflation.
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But administration officials say there is no evidence in the report which found the economy added 266,000 jobs in April, well below the one million jobs many economists expected that hiring has been slowed by the additional $300 per week that unemployed Americans are currently eligible to receive under the $1.9 trillion economic aid bill that
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Biden’s Expansive Infrastructure Plan Hits Close to Home for McConnell Campbell Robertson and Nicholas Fandos © Jeff Dean/Agence France-Presse Getty Images The Brent Spence Bridge has become a window into the depth of the political and ideological divide that is shaping the debate in Washington over President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan.
CINCINNATI Early one November morning last year, a tractor-trailer hauling potassium hydroxide crashed into another truck that had jackknifed on the Brent Spence Bridge, igniting an enormous fire over the Ohio River that shut down the antiquated span connecting Cincinnati and northern Kentucky for six weeks.
Daily commutes were snarled. Shipping delays rippled across the eastern United States. And residents who had grown accustomed to intractable fights among politicians over how to update the unsightly and overburdened choke point and how to pay for it had a glimmer of hope that, finally, something