Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was among the two dozen GOP chief executives who rejected the Biden administration’s hefty COVID-19 unemployment benefits in an effort to spur the labor market back to pre-pandemic levels.
Their theory was that virus-driven welfare was hampering the recovery by making it lucrative for people to just stay home. A new Morning Consult poll indicates they were right.
The pollster’s survey, released Wednesday, found that 13 percent of respondents turned down jobs during the pandemic because they received “enough money from unemployment insurance without having to work.”Now, 13 percent may not sound like a lot. But it […]
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