other programs that hand money to people. and that does so with the disincentive. and we ve already seen what happens when we have some of the of work despite the fact that we have 11 million unfilled jobs. it s gone from eight, 109 come up to 11 million, even without the extra payment on unemployment checks from the feds. we still have a lot of benefits that are keeping people from working and we are losing our competitive edge. i think anyone who s going to a restaurant recently or other service industries may notice there s been a slippage. people are not as sharp, not as quick to serve as a used to be. you ask people in the manufacturing floor whether the workers they are getting at the same incentive to work as he they use to but not so. they often say joe manchin, and democrats, proposing an historic expansion of social programs while ignoring the fact that we are not in a recession and that
in excuse me, you have the catholic health universities defying logic and they are firing 50 people. sunny brook university hospital 200 employees, north well 65 because people won t get vaccinated. you are pro-vaccine. is this a good move making people get vaccinated? vaccine mandates are an awful move, brian. they were bad at the federal level byjoe biden. i don t think they re legal when joe biden does them at the federal level and i don t think the governor should be dog them either. we should be persuading why the vaccine and taking the vaccine is safe, makes sense and will keep them healthier. but if we can t persuade them we shouldn t be mandating these things. we have a labor shortage in this country right now, brian, in healthcare and many other parts of the economy. and we are now going to kick people out who want to work after joe biden has got a whole bunch of people on their couch with big unemployment checks.
pertaining to cdl licensure. todd: is this do in part to the biden unemployment checks on the sidelines. some people are concerned about covid, to work on school buses but the federal unemployment checks that were keeping people home, and paying them more not to work was a major major cause of the crisis and something moving forward we can t allow. todd: let us know if the governor does this in new york state. jillian: 29 after the hour, major updates in two stories, and the shooting of a prominent south carolina attorney. new details as her boyfriend
been spotting, like why all of the accused planners of the terror attacks were all smiles today. sandra: millions of americans losing their pandemic unemployment checks, but does not mean that they will get back to work? it depends on who you ask. the unemployment insurance is not the only welfare benefits that the progressives have pushed through. child tax credits. there s a lot of stuff that essentially reward staying at home and not going to work. the two and a quarter refi. two and a quarter percent. just 2.48 apr. save thousands every year. experience our advance standards safety technology on a full line of vehicles. at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350.
what s coming down and gerri willis on what is going up at the stores but first, go to jackie on jobs. this has been the moment everyone is waiting for, the time when the economic recovery is on track post-pandemic where pandemic unemployment benefits end. today, seven and a half million workers who have received boosted unemployment checks will be cut off according to the century foundation. a group of people have already lost their benefits, 9.4 million people as of mid-july. these were people who were not traditionally eligible for aid like freelancers who got it because of the crisis. the department of labor said that more than 72% of americans got one form of assistance or another. recall that in march of this year, the american rescue plan extended benefits through labor day and democrats insisted more aid was necessary at that time all republicans questioned why reopening wasn t enough to