Exposing as a fraud the claim that the
supplemental benefit is keeping workers from
returning to work, new research by the
Economic Policy Institute (EPI) published on
June 29 shows that some 17.6 million
workers have no prospect of returning to a job
at all.
Millions in the US face catastrophe as federal unemployment relief set to expire amid surging pandemic
4 July 2020
Tens of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic face financial catastrophe as the federal government moves forward with a plan to end the $600 weekly federal expansion of state unemployment benefits by the end of July.
While the pandemic continues to surge and sets infection records daily—the seven-day rolling average of new COVID-19 infections in the US has now surpassed 50,000—a bipartisan agreement is being worked out in Congress to terminate the federal aid and force workers into destitution or back to work to face sickness and death.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, said that the unemployment benefit that was included in the CARES Act passed in March will not be in the new coronavirus relief bill being planned for a vote in the Senate by the end of July.
Speaking for the interests of the American corporate and financial elite, McConnell said of the $600 benefit that the government should not be “paying people a bonus not to go back to work... And we’re hearing it all over the country that it’s made it harder actually to get people back to work.”
In an interview with Fox Business Network on Wednesday, President Donald Trump backed up McConnell’s view saying that the CARES Act jobless benefit gave Americans “a disincentive to work.”
BLOG EDITOR: WHILE McCONNELL, ONE OF CONGRESS' MOST CORRUPT, OPPOSED EXPANSION OF UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS, HE'S ALL FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP THE HORDES COMING AND WORKING 'CHEAP'. THE TRUE COST OF ALL THAT 'CHEAP' MEX LABOR IS PASSED ALONG TO THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
McConnell, who was opposed to the expansion of unemployment payments in the first place, said, “I think it was a mistake,” and that any new bill that included the benefit is “never going to pass the Senate.”
While the Democrats—knowing full-well that the Republican majority will not approve it—have said they are in favor of an extension of the federal benefit, a deal is being worked out behind the scenes that will tie any new aid to economic conditions in each state or offer some kind of reduced “back to work bonus.”
Whatever the agreement worked out by the
end of the month, it is clear that the US
political establishment is preparing a new
round of government funding that will be
doled out to the corporations and stock
market while the working class will be cut off
from minimal aid as part of the “reopening of
the economy,” even as it is projected that
daily confirmed coronavirus infections could
rise to 100,000 in a matter of weeks.
The consequences of this policy will be devastating for workers who, as some analysts have put it, will fall off a fiscal cliff on July 31. For many individuals, the loss of the $600 federal supplemental benefit will mean that their state-only unemployment checks will drop to $385 per week. One report says that the federal cutoff will reduce benefits for 31 million workers by 61 percent.
Exposing as a fraud the claim that the supplemental benefit is keeping workers from returning to work, new research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) published on June 29 shows that some 17.6 million workers have no prospect of returning to a job at all.
The EPI report, which came out before the official unemployment numbers for June were released on Wednesday, notes, “Of the 32.5 million workers who are either officially unemployed or otherwise out of work because of the virus, 11.9 million workers, or 7.2% of the workforce, are out of work with no hope of being called back to a prior job.”
To this total, EPI found that, “5.7 million workers, or 3.5% of the workforce, are out of work and expect to get called back to a prior job but likely will not.”
For millions of workers, the termination of the $600 per week benefit will lead to devastating consequences as families are forced to make decisions between feeding themselves or paying for utilities and rent.
Bob Pinnegar, President and CEO of the National Apartment Association, told Forbes on Wednesday, “The enhanced unemployment benefits are very important to people, especially those that are in lower paying jobs. They’re really helping them to make ends meet and to be able to put food on the table, to pay their utilities and to pay their rent. The challenge is going to be going forward.”
A massive housing crisis is inevitable as the 120-day federal eviction protection is also set to expire on July 25, at the same time the supplemental unemployment benefits end. Since many rental properties do not qualify for the eviction program to begin with, a large number of families will be thrown out of their homes in August.
A measure of the priorities of the American
ruling establishment is the fact that the
CARES Act has not addressed the needs of
the poorest sections of the population,
especially when it comes to food insecurity.
A report on Friday in the Hill said, “Congressional stimulus packages passed so far allow states to increase SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits for two months for some, yet the poorest 40 percent of participants, including five million children, have yet to see any benefit increase.”
Data from June 11 through June 23 published by the House Pulse Survey of the US Census Bureau shows that about 11.8 million children live in households that missed a mortgage or rent payment or sought deferment, while 3.9 million children are experiencing COVID-19 induced food shortages.
While Congress and the President Trump are proceeding with an aggressive back-to-work agenda, the reality is that millions of workers are resisting being forced to work under conditions of an expanding pandemic which is just beginning to infect ever broader segments of the population.
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals!
This is why you work From Jan - May paying taxes to the government
....with the rest of the calendar year is money for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.
He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he
pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax
Return, with his fake Social Security number, he gets an "earned income
credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for
SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this
is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or
homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed
material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour
in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after
Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and
trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks
down; will make you want to be an illegal!
THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN
UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2
BILLION YEARLY!
Staggering expensive "cheap"
Mexican labor did not build this once great nation! Look what it has done to
Mexico. It's all about keeping wages depressed and passing along the true cost
of the invasion, their welfare, and crime tidal wave costs to the backs of the
American people!
AMERICA: YOU’RE BETTER
OFF BEING AN ILLEGAL!!!
This annual income for an impoverished American family is
$10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on
each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong
of the University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25
percent of DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That
totals about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled
illegal aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified
illegal aliens. JOHN BINDER
“The
Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended
was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of
unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by native-born Americans.
Simultaneously, illegal immigration ext year is on track
to soar to the highest level in a decade, with a potential
600,000
border crossers expected.
“More than 750 million people want to migrate to another country
permanently, according to Gallup research published Monday, as 150 world
leaders sign up to the controversial UN global compact which critics say makes
migration a human right.” VIRGINIA HALE
For example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion, more than the border wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to fork up to subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens.
Exclusive–Steve Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans
$70K Over Their Lifetime
Every illegal alien, over the
course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for
Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.
During an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Daily, Camarota said his research has revealed the
enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on America’s working and
middle class taxpayers in terms of public services, depressed wages, and
welfare.
“In a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border
crosser might cost taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,”
Camarota said. “And that excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which
gets pretty big when you add that in.”
LISTEN:
“Once [an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash
welfare on behalf of their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they
have a child, they can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can
receive food stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota said the education levels of illegal aliens, border
crossers, and legal immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of
welfare usage by the f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new
arrivals tend to compete for jobs against America’s poor and working class
communities.
In past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did
not have an expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system,
coupled with mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely
problematic,” according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The RAISE Act — reintroduced in the
Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and
Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the
immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving
American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming
immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes the
wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top
earners.
“Virtually none of that existed in 1900 during the last great
wave of immigration, when we also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t
have a well-developed welfare state,” Camarota continued:
We’re not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in
that context, bringing in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic
for public coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the
roads weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally
different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of
bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government …
and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]
The immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t
immediately sign up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their
children up. It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of
illegal immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which
is our most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households
headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households
headed by native-born Americans.
Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign
nationals, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the
foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5
million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal
and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15
percent of the entire U.S. population.
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