The state House approved Thursday a Republican-led effort that would compel North Carolina s withdraw from a federal extended unemployment benefit program with a $300 weekly payment.
State House Republicans submitted legislation Wednesday that would compel the Cooper administration to withdraw from a pivotal federal extended unemployment benefits program before its Sept. 6 expiration date.
State House Republicans submitted legislation Wednesday that would compel the Cooper administration to withdraw from a pivotal federal extended unemployment benefits program before its Sept. 6 expiration date.
Echoing Sens. Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, state House members called for the state to be removed from the pandemic unemployment assistance program, saying it is causing a workforce shortage.
Isolation Is Weakness; Strength Is in Numbers
Legend has it that back in 1776, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin quipped to his fellow revolutionaries, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” That is, if the patriots didn’t stay together and fight for independence as a group, the British would win and then hang them all, one by one.
Fortunately, there’s strength in unity. George Washington kept the army of the 13 colonies intact, and so, after five arduous years of fighting, he won a decisive victory at Yorktown. To this day, the success of the American Revolution stands as an inspiring saga of purposeful teamwork; the Americans hung together and were not hanged.