Growing number of GOP-led states move to end COVID unemployment benefits

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation" that nothing in the data suggests that enhanced unemployment checks are the reason people are out of work. But, she added, "this is regional, and it's appropriate that governors in different regions would respond to what's going on in their regional labor market." A Yale study, for instance, found that expanding unemployment did not dissuade people from seeking work. Judy Conti, government affairs director of the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, said ending the benefit is "ill-informed and cruel." "I don't know why these governors thought you could just flip a switch and suddenly every business was going to get up and running and every worker back to a job," she said. "It's still going to take a while to get people back to work.
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