Expanded unemployment benefits were ended for 9 million Americans under the excuse that it was preventing them from going back to work. Robert Reich comments on this article showing that even without those extra benefits people still aren't going back to work. That's because the real reasons are that we have legitimate concerns about the pandemic, child care, and especially that we're fed up doing shit work for minimum wage with little to no benefits.
As Reich aptly puts it: "Letting these benefits expire while the pandemic is still raging isn’t just cruel — it’s wildly ineffective." But that's the Repugnacon way.
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