Republicans reinstate work-search requirement for unemployment
May 19, 2021 4:04 PM Associated Press
Updated:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Republican legislators reinstated a requirement Wednesday that unemployed people look for work in order to qualify for benefits, advancing part of a broader GOP effort to alleviate a statewide worker shortage.
The Legislature’s Republican-controlled rules committee voted to reinstate the requirement beginning Sunday, pushing aside Democratic members’ complaints that the move is premature and won’t help employers fill vacancies.
“It’s not onerous to ask people to look for work while receiving unemployment benefits,” committee co-chairman Rep. Adam Neylon, a Republican from Pewaukee, said during a hearing ahead of the vote. “We’re trying to be responsive to the conditions out there. What we hear is we need more workers.”
Republicans move to reinstate work-search requirement startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
California will stay masked for another month
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press May 17, 2021 8:20pm Text size Copy shortlink:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. California won t lift its mask requirement until June 15 to give the public and businesses time to prepare and ensure coronavirus cases stay low, the state health director said Monday, a decision that runs counter to many other states including Oregon and Washington that quickly aligned with last week s new federal guidelines. This four-week period will give Californians time to prepare for this change, while we continue the relentless focus on delivering vaccines particularly to underserved communities and those that were hard hit throughout this pand
California says it needs another month to unmask
DON THOMPSON, Associated Press
FacebookTwitterEmail 17
1of17Designer Gere Kavanaugh, left, wears a face mask of her design, as she exercises with Silver Age Home Health licensed vocational nurse Daisy Cabaluna during a weekly outdoors session at her home in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Monday, May 17, 2021. California is keeping its rules for wearing face masks in place until the state more broadly lifts its pandemic restrictions on June 15.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less
2of17Designer Gere Kavanaugh, left, wears a face mask of her design in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Monday, May 17, 2021. At right, Silver Age Home Health licensed vocational nurse Daisy Cabaluna monitors her temperature during a weekly outdoors visit at her home. California is keeping its rules for wearing face masks in place until the state more broadly lifts its pandemic restrictions on June 15.Damian Dovarganes/
Economists pan Gov. Abbott s decision to cut $300 federal boost for the unemployed
FacebookTwitterEmail
Dora Calderon serves customers at Los Vaqueros Restaurant in Fort Worth last month. Unemployment rates for Hispanics and Black Texans remain much higher than for whites and have not been declining in the same fashion, according to a recent Dallas Fed article. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas Morning News/TNS)Lynda M. González / TNS
Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision Monday to prematurely roll back federal unemployment checks was welcome news to the business community, which has struggled lately to draw Texans back to work even as millions are inoculated against the coronavirus.