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On Oct. 20, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced a crackdown on unemployment benefits. She required recipients to double their job-search activity, and she imposed strict auditswith the threat of cutting off payments to anyone who fell shortto ensure that no Iowan who is receiving unemployment benefits unnecessarily remains on the sidelines of the job market.
Nine days later, however, Reynolds signed legislation that pays vaccine refusers to do just that: sit on the sidelines. Under the new law, anyone discharged from employment for refusing to receive a vaccination against COVID-19
shall not be disqualified for benefits.
Reynolds is one of many Republican politicians who openly advocate, and in some states have successfully imposed, a two-tiered system of unemployment insurance. Its not a left-wing policy of money for everyone or a right-wing policy of money for no one. Its a policy of pernicious hypocrisy: welfare for vaccine refusers, tough love for everyone else.
Under these new laws, any worker who gets fired for broadly defined misconduct, such as flunking an employer-imposed drug test, is disqualified from unemployment benefitsbut employees who refuse COVID vaccination are glorified, protected, and subsidized. The state must guarantee, in Reynolds words, that these reckless freeloaders will still receive unemployment benefits despite being fired for standing up for their beliefs.
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liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Just more fucking right wing hypocrisy
tanyev
(42,559 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,501 posts)Raftergirl
(1,287 posts)that unemployment benefits are not enough to live on. Itll be a good lesson for them.