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By: Alex Cameron WASHINGTON - This week, Florida became the 23rd state all Republican-led to announce it would end the federal pandemic-induced unemployment benefits before they are scheduled to expire, in an effort to get people back to work. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt announced last week that Oklahoma would do the same. Many Republicans in Congress have been expressing concern since last summer that the special pandemic unemployment benefits would keep people from returning to the workforce. During a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford repeated that concern. We have the largest number of job openings in the history of my state, Sen. Lankford stated while questioning one of the Treasury Department nominees giving testimony. And we’re struggling under the additional unemployment benefits that have been given out where people literally make more not working than they do working.

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