Alabama just screwed 10,000 residents

[misanthrope]

https://www.al.com/business/2021/05/alabama-to-end-pandemic-related-unemployment-programs.html

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Alabama will end its participation in all federally-funded pandemic unemployment programs on June 19.

Gov. Kay Ivey announced the move this afternoon, making the state the latest to end the programs that added money to unemployment benefits and began last year as a response to massive layoffs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In her announcement, Ivey alluded to the programs “contributing to a labor shortage that is compromising the continuation of our economic recovery.” She cited the state’s current unemployment rate of 3.8 percent, the lowest in the Southeast.

“As Alabama’s economy continues its recovery, we are hearing from more and more business owners and employers that it is increasingly difficult to find workers to fill available jobs, even though job openings are abundant,” Ivey said. “Our Department of Labor is reporting that there are more available jobs now than prior to the pandemic. Jobs are out there.”

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So sending millions of dollars of federal money to consumers weekly harms a state's economy, even when that state already has one of the region's lowest unemployment rates? Maybe they should send out goon squads to aide restaurateurs by locking wage slaves into shackles and marching them into the businesses.

[budkin]

1. BUT BOOTSTRAPS

RIGHT TO WORK!

[JohnSJ]

2. They got what the majority in Alabama voted for

[OnDoutside]

13. Really hard to argue with that.

[JohnSJ]

15. Unfortunately

[XanaDUer2]

14. yup nt

[Lovie777]

3. I hope that the unused unemployment monies can be directed to states .....

that care about their constituents.

[HUAJIAO]

22. Send the $$ to NY. Without us and other 'giver' states,

Alabama couldn't exist.

Except Huntsville.

[Progressive Jones]

37. Thank you, from Chicago, IL, another of the rain makers in this nation. nt

[RegularJam]

4. Temporary program that is outliving it's shelf-life.

It's not a means to create change. It served its purpose.

Some states will need to maintain through September. Others wont. Alabama does not need to maintain it under the manner in which it was sold.

[Politicub]

9. What does "manner in which it was sold" mean?

[turbinetree]

18. I second your motion...............what does "manner " mean?

[RegularJam]

21. Sure.

Pandemic unemployment assistance.

[Phoenix61]

10. What does that even mean?

This isn’t about it not being needed it’s about a governor who couldn’t care less about the people in Alabama.

[turbinetree]

19. Exactly........another liberaitian hack job.......

[RegularJam]

23. Libertarian?

[turbinetree]

27. Libertarian's state run by a libertarians....

Amount and Duration of Unemployment Benefits in Alabama
The minimum amount you will receive is $45; the maximum amount you will receive is $275. You may receive benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks. (In times of very high unemployment, additional weeks of benefits may be available.)

Take care....

[RegularJam]

40. Still waiting to hear how you came to your conclusion about me.

Your fallacy did not rise to the occasion.

Hilarious it is. Zero difference from those running around yelling socialist.

[RegularJam]

20. I already knew that about their Governor.

Didn’t know it was a secret.

[Phoenix61]

24. If you think the people in Alabama don't need

the extra unemployment insurance I’m not sure you do know that. It didn’t expand Medicaid so maybe so fewer people have health insurance. It has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. Maybe people aren’t willing to work for minimum wage without health insurance with a bunch of people too stupid to get a vaccine.

[RegularJam]

41. Your first sentence is a fallacy.

It doesn’t improve from there.

The answer to peoples needs isn’t a very short term stop gap measure held in place at the whim of those you describe.

I’m shocked that people are acting shocked at what was known.

[Phoenix61]

43. Having lived in Alabama I'm away their needs.

You are assuming if they take away expanded UI they are going to replace it with some long term aid and they aren’t. At this time, expanded UI is the best the are going to get.

[tirebiter]

5. Give benefits to jobseekers/working people

By fattening paychecks with those funds.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Fucking Nasty Grandma

[jmbar2]

7. They want to go back to slavery

I hope folks took advantage of this period to prepare for better jobs, whenever possible.

[AleksS]

8. Heaven forbid offering more money

To your employees...


If you can’t find people wanting to take the job you’re offering at the pay you’re offering, then offer more pay.

[mvd]

11. Businesses are always complaining about lack of workers

They should make their jobs better or increase pay.

The unemployment benefits are just being used as a scapegoat to screw their residents.

[WVreaper]

12. Pay a living wage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DallasNE]

16. The Workplace Has Often Been A Hotspot For COVID

Nursing homes and meatpacking plants have been hit especially hard hit by COVID. People are still leery of going back to work at those location, I presume. Daycare has been hard hit as well. And daycare is a double whammy because lack of daycare is keeping many women home caring for children. Things just aren't going back together the way they came apart - and that was fully expected. Punitive Republican measures will only exacerbate the problem.

[onecaliberal]

17. Sadly, they continue to vote for this....

[Grins]

25. "Maybe they should send out goon squads..."

Wouldn’t be the first time.

Go find the book “Rising Tide” about the 1927 flood.

Mississippi and Arkansas police did exactly that. Re-enslaved blacks at gun point to work the levees. A prime reason for the mass migration of blacks from the south to places like Chicago, Detroit, and New York City.

[paleotn]

26. Alabama doesn't care.

If they did actually care about such things, parts of Alabama wouldn't look like sub Saharan Africa. Montgomery has the resources to put an end to it...but...you guessed it....they simply don't care.

https://www.newsweek.com/alabama-un-poverty-environmental-racism-743601

[misanthrope]

32. Lots of truth here

Thanks

[AZLD4Candidate]

28. Alabama votes Republican 99 times out of 100. Vote Republican, get their policies and ideas

Don't like it, stop slitting your own wrists by voting for insurrectionists.

Easy solution.

[Bo Zarts]

29. From a friend's FB page ..

“Hello, I’d like to hire you to paint my house.”

Sounds great. I charge $15/hr for my work, plus the cost of paint.

“I have $2.00.”

That’s not even enough to buy paint.

“Wow! So lazy. I guess no one wants to paint houses anymore.”

[JCMach1]

30. We have won the battle. Short of starvation people are no longer working for under $15

Per hour...

Think of it as a passive aggressive General Strike for a living wage

[Blue Owl]

31. K&R for visibility

[Takket]

33. "our economic recovery"

at least she has acknowledged that...

1. drumpf fucked up the economy by letting the pandemic rage
2. Biden is fixing it.

Thanks for vote or support for Biden, Governor!

[misanthrope]

34. Problem there is that

Her state has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the region. Also, that doesn't wash when you are turning down what is currently a $3 million interjection of cash into your state's economy weekly, money that will be spent and flow into state coffers through sales taxes.

[misanthrope]

36. No, it makes no sense from any angle

except as a cruel way to force wage slaves back into low-pay, high-risk jobs.

[Progressive Jones]

39. The Yokel-run states are in a desperate struggle to maintain power. They know that their

political ideology is being shit on and destroyed.

Dying things fight hard to survive. The hard right is dying.

[misanthrope]

42. Want to hear the cherry on top of today's announcement

They didn't use the ambiguous "through June" that Montana, South Carolina and Arkansas did. No, they said it would all end on June 19. They are using Juneteenth to return the state's wage slaves to servitude. The message couldn't be clearer.