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For the American economy to run properly, a certain portion of the working-age population must be poor and, preferably, a little bit desperate.
Or so you would think, given the hysterical reaction to last week s report showing the country s job growth lagged far behind expectations in April. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce bouyed this message with a response suggesting workers have grown too fat and sassy while collecting unemployment benefits made more generous by Congress during the pandemic.
Best to cut off those benefits, instead. The disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market, the organization said in a written statement. It added: One step policymakers should take now is ending the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit.
Texas gets $15.8B bonanza in pandemic aid, far more than it lost in revenue
Dallas County will receive $512M as part of the $1.9T Covid relief package. The city will get another $355M.
President Joe Biden speaks about the economy, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)(Evan Vucci)
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WASHINGTON The state, cities and counties of Texas will soon receive a $25 billion bonanza under the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief law signed by President Joe Biden in March.
The Treasury Department issued details Monday of the $350 billion set aside for state and local governments under the massive package, approved by Congress with only Democratic support.
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6:03 Before the coronavirus pandemic shut down Broadway, Bill Whitaker drove every week from his home in Connecticut to New York City, where he performed in “Phantom of the Opera” as a bass trombonist. This was Whitaker’s main gig for 19 years, but he had many others.
Throughout those years, he was a union member, and while he never expected a lavish retirement, he figured he would get something from his musicians pension. But when the pandemic hit and the music stopped, so did pension contributions from his multiple employers. He worried about an uncertain future.
“Obviously, you work for a very long time and you’d like to be thinking that when you put money away, when you do retire, that you’ve worked long and hard and that you have money that you can retire on,” Whitaker said. “There have been contributions made on my behalf in the pension fund since 1987.”