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(The Center Square) – Federal supplemental unemployment payments began as a bipartisan measure to remedy the hardships of COVID-19 last year, but as businesses across the country struggle to find workers, it is turning into a political battle. Several Senate Republicans held a news conference Thursday to call for an end to the federal unemployment payments, citing employers' difficulty finding workers. The move comes as Republican-run states around the country have announced they will no longer accept the benefits because of the need for their residents to go back to work. “I’m...

View Comments 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 t...

Gov. Bill Lee opts Tennessee out of $300 federal unemployment supplement, other programs Natalie Allison, Nashville Tennessean Tennessee is withdrawing from a $300 weekly unemployment supplement program, a decision by Gov. Bill Lee that comes as many Republicans argue the additional funds allow low-wage workers to make more money while staying at home. Lee informed the U.S. Department of Labor of the decision Tuesday, joining several other Southern states in refusing the additional payments for unemployed people. "We will no longer participate in federal pandemic unemploymen...

Apr 14, 2021 KEN: Did you ever think millions of Americans would be so comfortable with surrendering their rights, releasing their rights, complying to the most ridiculous things and then either nodding in agreement or ignoring the most overreaching things? And I think back to how President Obama was surveilling the news media and wiretapping and surveilling and tracking people that he shouldn’t have been. Well, like President Donald Trump, to begin with. And that was an outrage. If anybody else did that, they would have been charged with all kinds of things. And no one really cares. That�...