The gift comes courtesy of the 25 GOP governors who opted not to accept billions in federal unemployment benefits. As a result of their callous decision more than 4 million lost $300 in weekly payments they desperately needed.
Decarceration advocates urge lawmakers to consider sentencing reform instead as prisons have seen high rates of Covid outbreaks
Progressive critics warn failure to bolster the unemployment system during the pandemic "is a shocking dereliction of responsibility."
Millions of jobless workers are set to lose critical unemployment benefits in roughly 72 hours—and neither Congress nor the Biden administration seem prepared to do anything about it.
Only 11% of the rental assistance money allocated by Congress has been distributed. “If that money was parceled out at even a somewhat reasonable rate, there would be no crisis at all.”
Pandemic relief measures are hobbled by serious failures of program design and implementation.
Absent last-minute federal and state pandemic aid, Californians will be in for a rough new year. Some 750,000 Californians are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas, and 2.1 million could lose their homes weeks later.
"Millions falling into poverty, millions on the edge of eviction, millions going hungry, millions losing their healthcare and this megalomaniac dime store dictator puts his knee of the neck of a nation."
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