GOP gives unemployment checks to unvaxxed that defied Biden mandate - Axios

Republican officials around the country are testing a creative mechanism to build loyalty with unvaccinated Americans while undermining Biden administration mandates: unemployment benefits…

https://www.axios.com/republicans-unemployment-unvaccinated-biden-3cf363b5-8789-4bb4-b431-70401320de94.html

Opinion | The GOP’s ideology doesn’t match economic reality. Just ask Nobel Prize winner David Card. - The Washington Post

…We see other instances in which right-wing ideology leads to faulty economic conclusions. For months, Republicans and many in the media who parroted their arguments insisted generous unemployment benefits were keeping people from working. (This assumes people are lazy and more inclined to get something for nothing.) Sure enough, this turned out to be dead wrong…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/gops-ideology-doesnt-match-economic-reality-just-ask-one-this-years-nobel-prize-winners/

Cutting unemployment benefits won't bring back workers — but will hurt millions of families, new research finds

… A February study from the University of Chicago found that not only did more generous jobless benefits not curb people's propensity to seek jobs, it also generated among those households an unexpected increase in spending. "These spending and job finding facts suggest that benefit expansions during the pandemic were a more effective policy than predicted by standard structural models," the study's authors wrote...
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/cutting-unemployment-benefits-won-t-bring-back-workers-will-hurt-n1268191

GOP governors slash jobless aid to try to force more Americans to return to work - The Washington Post

… Rebecca Dixon, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, said the states now risk rolling back the much-needed federal aid too prematurely, putting families who do earnestly aspire to work at renewed financial risk. She said GOP governors nationwide similarly sought to reopen their states too soon in the more dire, and deadly, early months of the coronavirus pandemic.
"They're misguided in their thinking about why people aren't returning to work," said Dixon, whose organization advocates for greater unemployment assistance. "There are all of these ways our care infrastructure is not back up."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/05/08/republicans-unemployment-worker-shortage/

Millions of Americans scrape by after benefits expire: 'I lost everything'

Americans struggle to survive after $600 unemployment benefits expire and are left to rely on state benefits while waiting on Trump’s reduced federal benefits of $400 a week https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/20/americans-struggle-to-survive-after-unemployment-benefits-expire

White House clarifies limits of jobless aid plan as talks with Congress dim - The Washington Post

Unemployment benefit will be $300 per week, not the $400 Trump promised on Saturday
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/11/trump-unemployment-aid-congress/

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson hopes stimulus talks 'remain broken down'

Johnson said in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Tonight that he hopes negotiations stay broken down between the Trump administration and House Democratic leaders on a new pandemic relief package given the trillions Democratic leaders proposed in new spending. "From my standpoint, the breakdown in the talks is very good news. It's very good news for future generations," Johnson said. "I hope the talks remain broken down." https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/10/wisconsin-sen-ron-johnson-hopes-stimulus-talks-remain-broken-down/3334232001/

With Less than 100 Days Until the Election, Trump and the GOP Are Desperate

Seth takes a closer look at the morally and intellectually bankrupt Republican party squabbling over cutting unemployment benefits, sending secret police into American cities and whining about cartoons.
https://youtu.be/iMPP-GR_Bf0

'The government is failing us': Laid-off Americans struggle in coronavirus crisis - Reuters

....unemployment has become a full-time job.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-unemployment-i-idUSKBN22J2C4

In the Coronavirus Bill, Most of the Money for Ordinary People Is Thanks to Democrats – Mother Jones

Judging from my Twitter feed—I know, I know—conservatives know only one thing about the Democratic Party contribution to the coronavirus rescue bill: it includes money for Obamaphones and the Kennedy Center. I assume that this is basically the only thing Fox News has told them. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/in-the-coronavirus-bill-most-of-the-money-for-ordinary-people-is-thanks-to-democrats/