House Republicans falsely claim cutting off emergency unemployment aid spurred job growth

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -August 23, 2021 1:35 PM

Study after study has shown the opposite.

House Republicans are incorrectly claiming that state GOP efforts to cut off emergency pandemic unemployment benefits actually improved job growth. Numerous analyses have shown no evidence to support that argument.

On Friday, the Republican minority on the House Ways and Means Committee put out a statement asserting that a Friday jobs report "confirms that GOP governors who answered House Republicans' call to end unemployment bonuses that paid many jobless more to stay home than to work are seeing greater job gains in their states."

Texas Rep. Kevin Brady, the committee's top Republican, claimed, "As Republicans predicted, new unemployment reports show that states ending President Biden's anti-work unemployment bonuses have stronger job growth than states that continue them. Republican governors deserve credit for the improved July jobs report." He warned that any extension of the payments beyond their Sept. 6 expiration would be "economically reckless."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/house-republicans-falsely-claim-cutting-off-emergency-unemployment-aid-spurred-job-growth/

What an idiot....

[rickford66]

1. Be nice if this was included in the post.

"An August 4 CNBC report noted that the 26 states that opted to stop the payments in June or July saw hourly worker shifts grew at only about half the speed of states that kept the benefits."