President Biden announced Monday that his administration would affirm that workers cannot turn down a “suitable” job they are offered and continue to take federal unemployment benefits.
“We’re going to make it clear that anyone who is collecting unemployment who is offered a suitable job must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits,” Biden said in remarks on the economy from the East Room, noting there would be “a few COVID-19-related exceptions” to the guidance.
After a monthly report showed a slowdown in job growth last week, Republicans and business groups have argued that the supplemental unemployment benefits incentivized people not to work and should be done away with.
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Anyone who has gone through the process at NYC welfare knows that one of their suggested job never matches skills. NYC and NYS have tech jobs on their websites yet they don’t give priority to jobless or welfare recipients or even schedule interview days. The biggest sham is the Goodwill contract. Goodwill is run by a multi-millionaire and his paid jokes tell you to push around people at the airport in wheelchairs, although you have 3 degrees and ran departments larger than Congress. Change the system, don’t make things illegal and then refuse to enforce the law or make enforcement nearly impossible.
Yeh? Who’s gonna stop them??
That’s what I love about President Biden. He is a natural born leader. All those years fighting on the killing fields of Vietnam and Cambodia are now paying off.