Biden says Americans must accept a job or lose unemployment benefits after disappointing jobs report – By Megan Henney (FOX Business) / May 10 2021
Biden said his administration is taking steps that will make it easier for employers to hire more workers
President Biden on Monday pledged to enforce unemployment insurance laws so that no American can “game the system” to get paid not to work – but maintained that sweetened jobless benefits are not to blame for the lackluster April jobs report.
“We’re going to make it clear to anyone collecting unemployment who is offered a suitable job they must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits,” Biden said during prepared remarks from the East Room.
Biden said his administration is taking steps that will make it easier for employers to hire more workers, including accelerating aid for hard-hit child care providers, expanding states’ reemployment services and beginning to distribute $350 billion in aid to state and local governments as part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief law passed earlier this year.
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But the president rejected a recent push by Republicans to end, or severely curtail, the $300-a-week unemployment benefit extension included in the American Rescue Plan.
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