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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteny Hoyer with Katy Tur on Extending Unemployment Benefits
Today on MSNBC:
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)To hear that someone is talking about the Heros Act again - especially the need to continue enhanced unemployment benefits. The economy will crater if it isnt passed and who actually gives a rip if a few people make more. That only suggests to me that there are a lot of underpaid people in this country.
Mortgages
Rent
Child Care
Car payments
Food
Utilities
Health Insurance
Food
and on and on and on...
Fuck those Republicans who dont give a shit whether we live or die or can pay our bills.
Fuck every last one of them.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)but only because it's an election year and they are experiencing um, headwinds.
elleng
(131,370 posts)HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts).
aquamarina
(1,865 posts)It will be political suicide if the Repukes blow off the Heros Act. There are simply not enough rich republican voters to cover for Moscow.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)I have serious doubts that they would be at all motivated to help 'regular' American people at all.
It literally takes the threat of losing their jobs to get these guys to do the right thing.
Incredible.
OneGrassRoot
(22,923 posts)to all the 1099 self-employed subcontractors out here. With the gig economy there are millions of us. We didnt get that extra $600; I have yet to get the PAU special unemployment benefit they created for 1099 people.
In lieu of UBI, maybe more stimulus checks along with rent/mortgage forgiveness. That would help so many. 😢
stopbush
(24,398 posts)switched my claim from my newly filed 1099 claim for 2019 to an old W2 claim I filed with a job that ended in 7/2018. Now, that old claim has been exhausted and Im waiting for two weeks now for my new claim to be extended under the PUA. Three calls to the EDD have not resulted in my receiving extended benefits. All three reps I spoke with say that EDD should have automatically filed the extension on my behalf, but they didn't.
I have no idea how they are deciding what determines all this.
stopbush
(24,398 posts)dropped from $450 to $167.
OneGrassRoot
(22,923 posts)But wow about you getting the $600 initially. I thought it was a federal thing that 1099 weren't eligible for that but I guess it's state by state. I'm in NC. Maybe if/when ANYTHING finally comes through it will magically include that...lol.
Godspeed to you. Most of us need an awful lot of help right now...
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)A lot of states have screwed it up badly.
Better to give everyone a good sized monthly payment right away. It also negates the Republican argument about no incentive to go back to work. If you are willing to work you still get the money. If you cant, you get help.
stopbush
(24,398 posts)and therefore dont want to return to work is IRRELEVANT.
The point SHOULD be that the higher pay on unemployment acts as an INCENTIVE to NOT RETURN TO WORK TOO SOON. People need money to survive. If the UI benefits are significantly LOWER than what one made at their job, the incentive is to go back to work too soon, which we have seen PLAYS RIGHT INTO THE VIRUS HANDS. Pay people what it takes to keep them home, because that is the only way we are going to beat this virus.
Ds need to make this argument, because it would be the right argument to make if Rs hadnt so completely fucked up the way people think in this country over the past 50 years.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)If you refuse to return to work, you lose eligibility for unemployment. Its already how the rules are set up. The Republicans disincentive angle just doesn't hold water as people can't just stay on unemployment when their job reopens.
Johnny2X2X
(19,254 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 14, 2020, 03:23 PM - Edit history (1)
UE amounts are not enough, in my state they cap out at $362 a week. So for middle to higher income folk, getting laid off is catastrophic.
The $600 a week is offensive to Republicans, but not for the reasons they state. It's offensive to them because it highlights where wages should be for people to be able to live in dignity. The do not want workers to get a taste of a living wage or they fear they'll want that going forward, and they're right.
stopbush
(24,398 posts)that the higher UI benefit is a great thing because it gives low-wage workers a taste of what a better-paying job pays, thus acting as an incentive to the low-paid worker to find ways to elevate themselves into a better-paying job, through training etc.
But their true feelings are the exact opposite of that.