{"id":115014,"date":"2021-05-24T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=115014"},"modified":"2021-05-24T19:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T19:17:05","slug":"republican-governors-cutting-federal-unemployment-benefits-for-4-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/republican-governors-cutting-federal-unemployment-benefits-for-4-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Governors Cutting Federal Unemployment Benefits For 4 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four million workers will start losing unemployment benefits next month as Republican governors opt out of federal benefit programs enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Florida announced Monday it would drop the extra $300 that the federal government has been adding to weekly benefits so that workers would be more willing to accept lower-wage jobs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTransitioning away from this benefit will help meet the demands of small and large businesses who are ready to hire and expand their workforce,\u201d state labor secretary Dane Eagle <\/span>said in a press release<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As of Monday morning, 23 states have announced they\u2019ll discontinue the federal benefits, according to The Century Foundation, a think tank that analyzes economic policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Florida, Ohio, Alaska and Arizona are only dropping the $300 benefit, while the other states taking action are also canceling federal benefits for gig workers and the long-term jobless. About half of the 4 million workers will continue receiving state benefits, which average less than $400 per week. The other half will be left with nothing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Brown of Brownsburg, Indiana, gets $469 per week \u2015 $169 in federal long-term benefits for workers who\u2019ve exhausted their state benefits, plus the extra $300. Indiana announced last week that it would cancel the benefits in June.<\/span>\u00a0Brown earns some money from a temporary part-time job helping people file their taxes, but her benefit income will cease entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had just hoped we would have it through summer,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown, 36, said she and her partner are reconfiguring their budget as she searches for a data entry job that would let her work from home. She suffers from chronic abdominal pain and is hoping for a position that could accommodate two or three doctor visits every month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contrary to stories about employers struggling to find willing workers, Brown said she hasn\u2019t been getting interviews.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just hoping I can find some kind of work,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t care if it\u2019s full time or part time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives urged governors to cut the benefits, saying the extra money is \u201ccausing severe labor shortages across the country.\u201d Congressional Republicans supported the extra federal benefits last year when Donald Trump was president.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has said Joe Biden\u2019s administration should force states to continue paying the gig worker benefits until their planned expiration date in early September, but the Biden administration <\/span>isn\u2019t up for the fight<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Other Senate Democrats haven\u2019t joined Sanders in pushing for Biden to overrule Republican governors. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who helped write the law establishing the gig benefits, would say only that Republicans are cruel to discontinue the payments ahead of schedule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about losing not just the $300, but the extra weeks, gig benefits,\u201d Wyden told HuffPost. \u201cIf [workers] have exhausted their state benefits, they will have an income of zero.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wyden has proposed overhauling the state-federal unemployment system in a way that would disallow states from cutting benefits as much as they currently do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

States canceling federal benefits \u201chighlights the need for the structural reforms Wyden has proposed and we will definitely need to be able to require more of these states in federal law in the future, if we don\u2019t want stark inequalities to exist between workers based simply on where they live,\u201d The Century Foundation\u2019s Andrew Stettner said in an email.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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