OT: South Carolina becomes the second state to cancel federal unemployment benef
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
South Carolina plans to stop some of its federally-funded unemployment benefits to address "ongoing workforce shortages," according to the South Carolina governor's office, leaving many out-of-work residents without any support at all.
The state joins Montana, which announced a similar move this week.
"This labor shortage is being created in large part by the supplemental unemployment payments that the federal government provides claimants on top of their state unemployment benefits," Gov. Henry McMaster said in a statement on Thursday. "What was intended to be a short-term financial assistance for the vulnerable and displaced during the height of the pandemic has turned into a dangerous federal entitlement, incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace."
Starting June 30, jobless South Carolinians will lose the extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits but maintain their regular benefits. Contractors, gig workers, and others will also lose access to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, meaning those workers won’t get any benefits.
"Nearly every sector in our economy faces a labor shortage," Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte said in a statement on Tuesday. "The vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good."
As a way to incentivize workers to return to work, Montana is offering a one-time return-to-work payment of $1,200, using money from the American Rescue Plan to fund the program. Only those who complete four weeks of work would receive the payment.
"Incentives matter," Gianforte said. "Our return-to-work bonus and the return to pre-pandemic unemployment programs will help get more Montanans back to work."
South Carolina hasn't announced a return-to-work incentive once the federal benefits are cut.
https://money.yahoo.com/south-carolina-c…
The state joins Montana, which announced a similar move this week.
"This labor shortage is being created in large part by the supplemental unemployment payments that the federal government provides claimants on top of their state unemployment benefits," Gov. Henry McMaster said in a statement on Thursday. "What was intended to be a short-term financial assistance for the vulnerable and displaced during the height of the pandemic has turned into a dangerous federal entitlement, incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace."
Starting June 30, jobless South Carolinians will lose the extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits but maintain their regular benefits. Contractors, gig workers, and others will also lose access to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, meaning those workers won’t get any benefits.
"Nearly every sector in our economy faces a labor shortage," Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte said in a statement on Tuesday. "The vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good."
As a way to incentivize workers to return to work, Montana is offering a one-time return-to-work payment of $1,200, using money from the American Rescue Plan to fund the program. Only those who complete four weeks of work would receive the payment.
"Incentives matter," Gianforte said. "Our return-to-work bonus and the return to pre-pandemic unemployment programs will help get more Montanans back to work."
South Carolina hasn't announced a return-to-work incentive once the federal benefits are cut.
https://money.yahoo.com/south-carolina-c…
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I did some calculations and found that I pretty much make the same amount of money at 18 hours of work as I make at 38 hours of work and that I make the most money each week by only working 23 hours. By working more than that, I disqualify myself for unemployment that week which then disqualifies me for the $300 payment. As a result, if you graphed my income per hours worked, you'd see a steadily rising line with a huge valley in the middle of it.
Some say this is exactly what the left Dem party wants – the left has been touting “The Great Reset” since 2020 which in part has far-out leftist ideology such as the eradication of private property and the dismantling of capitalism – along these lines part of this leftist ideology is the elimination of the middle-class (a staple of open democratic free-market societies and why it's a problem for the left) - the left wants to create a class that is dependent (and thus no choice but to be obedient) of a large central-government thus allowing a ruling-class to stay in power in perpetuity.
With the recent poor jobs-report last Friday; Biden was already saying that this is proof that government needs to spend even more than they are already doing (translation take over more of the economy and make the economy and the people even more dependent on them); when in reality the current government needs to be doing the opposite and everyone knows this but the leftist-media is all the way in w/ this socialist shit.
As prices keep increasing I assume people may start cutting back and the economy may get ugly.
Because it may be doing more harm than good - and likely the business sector (restaurants; hospitality; gig economy; etc) is letting the politicians know they can't run their businesses w/ the current level of government intervention in the economy
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Not too sure if that is in SC’s reasoning. Probably just complaints from business owners in general.
“Ohio business owners are creating jobs faster than people are returning to the workforce,” said Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted. “Now that all Ohio adults have access to the vaccine, it’s time to return to the traditional work requirements.”
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Reminds me of the 14 red states that still refuse federal Medicaid expansion money. It's downright cruel.
Why? Because anything that smells like socialism is perceived as bad.