Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
Interesting, but yeah I guess that still counts in the sense that still it’s pushing say, software engineers that lost their jobs to AI, to absolutely have to take a minimum wage job to, possibly afford enough food to survive while getting evicted/foreclosed etc…
No matter how you slice it, it still does put more people… into a rush to get SOME form of employment. even at the cost of their time that they could be using to get… actually livable employment.
blue collar worker looks up
“Homie, you think we have jobs for y’all?”
There’s a republican solution for that as well… “lower/eliminate minimum wage so corporations can hire people to do things that are less useful”. Think of it, we can pay people $2 an hour to have them stand in a park and tell people they should eat at mcdonalds, normally the conversion rate is too low, but at $2 an hour, if they can get one person to go every 2 hours, it’s still profitable.
(and yes obviously this is horribly terrifyingly stupid… and honestly not that far from what many horrible politicians have pushed for).