Starting on Labor Day , more than 7 million people across the United States will lose their pandemic unemployment benefits, and the White House isn’t planning …
Starting on Labor Day, more than 7 million people across the United States will lose their pandemic unemployment benefits, and the White House isn’t planning to extend the program. The emergency federal jobless benefits of $300 per week was a key provision of the CARES Act passed in March 2020 and was extended by Congress in subsequent legislation. Those benefits are slated to end on Labor Day, coming weeks after a federal eviction moratorium expired. The Sept.6 expiration date was part of a congressional deal made earlier this year to extend the federal jobless aid. Also earlier this year, about two dozen Republican-led states moved to end the expanded unemployment benefits early and argued that the program creates a disincentive for Americans from joining the workforce. Jared Bernstein, who sits on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told The Associated Press in a report published Sunday that “$22 trillion dollar economies work in no small part on momentum and we have strong momentum going in the right direction on behalf of the American workforce.
