Beshear: Ending extra jobless aid now would hurt economy [View all]
FRANKFORT, KY. -- Cutting off the extra federal payments going to unemployed Kentuckians would hurt the state's economy as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday.
The Democratic governor said he's willing to consider ending the weekly $300 federal unemployment payment eventually but quickly added: “That doesn't mean we will.”
The Bluegrass State's most powerful Republican, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, criticized the extra federal benefits Monday. He said governors are “having to clean up this mess” as many businesses struggle to find workers.
Beshear said he's trying to “thread the needle” of maintaining the supplemental federal payments that pump tens of millions of dollars into the state's economy each week while encouraging people to go back to work as the economy fully reopens.
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(Raleigh News & Observer)
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