In addition, 4 million Americans across 25 Republican-led states are set to lose unemployment benefits this month, according to estimates
Saturday marks the beginning of the end for Americans who’ve been relying on enhanced unemployment benefits for the past year and a half.
The governors of the 25 states, which include Arizona, Texas and Ohio, say the extra $300 a week is overly generous and is contributing to mounting complaints they hear from employers who cannot fill job vacancies. “ Over the past two months some 825,000 jobs were added — far below the 1.6 million jobs economists were forecasting for April and May ”
Enhanced unemployment benefits “helped people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and who still may be in the process of getting vaccinated,” Biden said Friday. “But it will expire in 90 days. That makes sense — that it will expire in 90 days,” he added.
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