Florida to turn away $300 federal unemployment aid next month
At least 22 other states have said they will leave the program early.
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Many states are ending the $300 weekly extended unemployment benefits, arguing it discourages people from seeking work.
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TALLAHASSEE â Floridaâs unemployment agency announced Monday that it would stop jobless Floridians from receiving an additional $300 in weekly benefits next month.
The Department of Economic Opportunity announced the state would stop participating in the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program starting the week of June 27.
The program, which was set to run out in September, has been giving jobless Floridians an additional $300 in weekly benefits on top of eligible state benefits, which top out at $275 per week, one of the lowest rates in the nation.
Florida State University. Credit: Diane Rado
Florida State University’s Presidential Search Committee has refused to put Florida’s irascible Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran on its short list.
He should never have been on any list. He’s not FSU president material.
FSU is a public institution. Corcoran’s an enemy of public education, an ardent supporter of school vouchers. He graduated from a private Roman Catholic college and got his law degree from a private church school founded by televangelist Pat Robertson.
Not necessarily disqualifying, but not encouraging.
During a meeting of the state Board of Education in 2020, he declared you should never read The Washington Post or The New York Times.
Seasonal employees may be a bus ride instead of plane ride away, provided that businesses can recruit workers in New Bedford and Fall River to fill large labor gaps on Cape Cod.
Wendy Northcross, CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, said the Cape business community has been in talks with workforce recruiters who specialize in hiring domestic employees, since the traditional pool of foreign seasonal workers has dried up.
“How exactly they find people that’s their secret sauce,” Northcross said during a Thursday morning press briefing by the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force.
If companies such as Complete Labor and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts can find sufficient numbers of employees off-Cape, the business community would work with transportation providers to develop new routes to the Cape, not just seasonally but year-round, Northcross said.