Republican cuts to emergency unemployment benefits did not help improve workforce shortages
It’s the COVID, stupid! That simple reality is apparently too complex for most of the media to figure out, as they transcribe and repeat Republican talking points over and over again about how people are quitting their jobs because the $300 a month unemployment benefits earlier this year were “too generous.” Twenty-six Republican-run states cut off unemployment benefits to their people two and three months early — and not one single Red state that did it saw a bounce in people looking for work. You would think that would have been enough to put a stake through the heart of...
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