Workers protest end of $600 unemployment supplement; jobless in Florida stuck with lowest benefit in

[TexasTowelie]

Workers protest end of $600 unemployment supplement; jobless in FL stuck with lowest benefit in nation


Workers in Miami protested Friday against losing federal Unemployment Insurance benefits of $600 weekly that jobless people were receiving in the pandemic economy due to massive job losses.

The four-month-old supplement ended Friday, with partisan fighting in Congress failing to create a replacement. The U.S. Department of Labor reports nearly 32 million Americans are out of work.

The loss of the $600 weekly supplement leaves Florida workers made jobless by the pandemic reliant on a $275 weekly state benefit that includes only 12 weeks of unemployment pay — the lowest total benefit in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. (The base number of weeks does not reflect the 13-week extension authorized nationwide by Congress for COVID-19 relief.)

“We are feeling the pain of the pandemic through no fault of our own. There are no jobs for people to find,” said Jeffrey Mitchell, president of the South Florida AFL-CIO and of Transit Workers Union Local 291, who was interviewed by the Phoenix.

Read more: https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2020/07/31/workers-protest-end-of-600-unemployment-supplement-jobless-in-fl-stuck-with-lowest-benefit-in-nation/

[Sherman A1]

1. If they don't get a stimulus package together quickly

We will start to see the economy begin to collapse in short order.

[TexasTowelie]

2. What annoyed me was this past week I saw a headline indicating that the $1 trillion plan

coming from the GOP was the starting point for negotiations and the onus was upon the Democrats to make the deal. It wasn't the starting point though since the Democrats in the House already passed a $3 trillion plan. The media are the ones that support such bullshit and they are the reason that people are so misinformed.

[Sherman A1]

3. Counting on the media to do their job

Is a fool’s errand. They are there to create tension and fill airtime keeping eyes glued to the TV 📺 between commercials.