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South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson is leading a push in the U.S. House to scale back unemployment benefits giving some able-bodied Americans a reason not to go back to work.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor's April jobs report showed fewer Americans than anticipated have returned to employment despite a record-high number of jobs available and state economies across the country reopening.
That is, in part, being blamed on a federal supplement to state unemployment programs that padded an extra $300 onto weekly assistance checks that qualifying workers have been receiving since the early stages of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.