Gretchen Whitmer that: “Unfortunately, these benefits remain so robust that employees are more incentivized to stay home and collect unemployment than to go back to work.” In Michigan, the seven Republicans in their Congressional delegation are demanding an end to the federal supplement, contending in a letter to Democratic Gov. Roger Marshall of Kansas, who is leading the Senate charge to cut off the benefit, wrote in the Kansas City Business Journal. “We should not be in the business of creating lucrative government dependency that makes it more beneficial to stay unemployed rather than return to work,” Sen. Not content with red state refusal alone, Senate Republicans are trying to cut off the $300 benefit for the whole country. Two dozen Republican-governed states have refused the federally funded $300 weekly unemployment supplement, and 36 states now require that anyone receiving unemployment benefits prove that they’ve looked for work unsuccessfully. Many Republicans see these numbers and conclude the problem is unemployment payments that are, in their estimation, doled out to lazy people unwilling to work. Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill Filipovic
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