Now 23 STATES have rejected Joe’s handouts
Daily Wire:
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this week he would opt out of Biden’s boosted unemployment benefits
- ‘Transitioning away from this benefit will help meet the demands of small and large businesses who are ready to hire and expand their workforce,’ Florida’s Department of Economic Opportunity Secretary Dane Eagle said
“The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.” Proverbs 23:4 ESV
- The new announcement makes 23 Republican-run states that won’t accept the $300 weekly payment from federal government to their jobless constituents
- Governors say money is disincentivizing people to get a job when they can make the same collecting benefits
- Experts claim those who made $32,000 before the pandemic can now make the same – or more – with combined benefits from state and federal government, encouraging people to stay home
- ‘Our economy has come back, we have jobs aplenty,’ Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said. ‘We cannot pay extra compensations for workers to stay home’
- President Joe Biden said in remarks earlier in May he did not ‘see much evidence’ the benefit encouraged people to stay unemployed