Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withdraw federal funding for unemployment assistance in all 50 states as part of the president’s nationwide campaign against “fraud” in government spending.
In a letter to the governors of 53 states and territories, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling warned that the federal government would use “every available tool” to combat “waste, fraud and abuse” within state-run unemployment insurance programs, including “withholding administrative funds from states” for the first time in history.
There is no single national program for unemployment support, though the federal government partners with state agencies to support temporary financial assistance to out-of-work Americans. Nearly 2 million people are currently receiving those benefits, while roughly 229,000 people are filing initial jobless claims every week, according to the Labor Department.
Currently on unemployment thanks to the tech industry. I wonder what my trump loving family members will think when I bring this up the next time they ask me how the job hunt is going.
Knowing Trump fans, they’re going to say it’s a good thing, it’ll make you get up and get a job sooner rather than laying around “wasting time on the government dime”. Cause they all probably believe it’s very easy to get another job.
Was going to say the same thing. Besides, if they know you don’t support PEDOnald, they’ll take it as your comeuppance.
I’ve had a conservative in-law tell me that maybe I should not be getting by financially, and that was implied as part of the problem under Biden - that I was doing okay. Because I went to college, etc. No, I should be doing less well and that would mean things were properly balanced or something. That somehow PEDOnald didn’t “get” people like me the first time around and somehow harmed me and others like me (meaning, again, someone who went to college) - and maybe not only financially and that hopefully that would be different in his second term.
It’s just as fucked as it sounds. Did this in-law think it through and realize it would harm not only my kids, but his direct blood relative? If he did, he didn’t give a fuck, apparently.
If you aren’t conservative and don’t support Donvict, you deserve to suffer, in their worldview.
“Have you asked ChatGPT for help finding a job?”