Of course he hasn't. Gotta ask.

South Carolina, Montana declining federal unemployment funds 'a huge mistake,' economists say - ABC News (go.com)
Changes to state unemployment requirements, federal payouts make it hard for employers to fill positions (fox13news.com)

Worthington Decker says there are at least two major factors that are fueling the problem.

In Florida, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the state no longer required people on unemployment to prove they were looking for a job. So, according to Worthington Decker, they didn’t look anymore. She also says when the federal government boosted the unemployment rate, it compounded the issue.

"It appears to a lot of our business owners that they are competing against that boost to federal unemployment in terms of being able to bring people back into the workforce," she continued.​

To sweeten the pot, many employers such as Legoland Florida are offering incentives, like a $500 signing bonus for certain job categories. Legoland is even offering free child care during interviews.
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Businesses seek change to unemployment so they can fill job openings (yahoo.com)

An increasing number of help-wanted signs are being posted in and around Baltimore, but businesses -- particularly restaurants -- are having a hard time filling vacancies. The problem has gotten so bad that several hospitality groups wrote a letter to the state labor secretary asking for a change in unemployment benefits policy. The signs of an economic turnaround are posted everywhere, but many of the job opportunities are going unfilled. Business owners are blaming changes in the state's unemployment system, saying people are being paid not to work.​

 

Well, biden is in fact wrong about that.
Several states made changes so that individuals a) Don't have to demonstrate that they are looking for work (although that was a joke even before covid) b) Can decline work because of a fear of contracting covid c) Can decline work that pays less than their unemployment.

Unemployment benefits after quitting or refusing job? Here's what to know (cnbc.com)

• Workers can collect unemployment benefits even after refusing work or quitting a job, if it’s for “good cause.”
• The CARES Act expanded these opportunities for Americans in instances related to Covid-19 — for health, safety or child-care reasons, for example.
• Some states may be more lenient than others as they begin reopening their economies, experts said.

What Happens When Unemployment Pays Too Well? (shrm.org)

As COVID-19-related restrictions are lifted, companies have started recalling employees to offices and factories around the country. But some are getting a surprising response to the opportunity: "Thanks, but no thanks. I would rather collect unemployment."

Enhanced unemployment benefits—an extra $600 a week—under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) make working a less attractive proposition for some. With extra caregiving responsibilities as schools and day care centers remain closed, others figure it's more hassle than it's worth to return to a job.

"Some of my clients are trying to recall people, and they don't want to come back," said Scott Warrick, a Columbus, Ohio-based employment attorney and the author of Solve Employee Problems Before They Start (SHRM, 2019). "They say, 'The kids are home. I'm getting half my wages in unemployment. It's not so bad. And I'll get an extra $600 a week.' That's a big windfall."
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Remember when deplorables were against the second round of bonus unemployment benefits? They said the problems included that it was a disincentive for people to return to work, and also it encouraged fraud? And the despicables pooh poohed that and said there was no increased fraud because of the bonus unemployment?

And then we learned that California paid out a whopping $11 BILLION in fraudulent unemployment benefits, and nationwide, $63 BILLION in fraud payments.

For the president to stand there and lie to America, that people aren't staying out of work cause they make more on unemployment is pretty fucking sad, don't you think?

 

Are you alleging things again?

An allegation should not be investigated then?

Thinskin

 

Fact check: Biden makes false claim about former Federal Reserve leaders, revives misleading jobs claim (msn.com)
Fact check: Biden makes false claim about former Federal Reserve leaders, revives misleading jobs claim
President Joe Biden claimed last Wednesday that the last five leaders of the Federal Reserve had declared that his American Jobs Plan proposal will increase economic growth.

The American Jobs Plan, which you can read about here, would spend roughly $2 trillion on infrastructure projects and other initiatives. Biden has proposed to pay for the spending by increasing the statutory corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and to make a variety of other tax changes, including a major increase in tax enforcement against corporations.

"And, by the way, you saw -- you know, the -- the last five leaders of the Fed coming out and saying -- what'd they say? They said, 'Biden's plan is going to grow the economy,'" Biden said in his Wednesday speech at the White House.

Facts First: Biden's claim is false. As a White House official acknowledged to CNN when we sought comment on Monday, Biden was inaccurately referring to an opinion article published in the Washington Post that day by five former leaders of the Internal Revenue Service, not five former leaders of the Federal Reserve; only three past chairs of the Federal Reserve are even alive. The former IRS commissioners did not say anything about how Biden's plan would affect economic growth. Rather, they said Biden's proposals -- including a well-funded effort to crack down on the non-payment of taxes owed -- would make the tax administration system "far fairer and more effective" and "produce a great deal of revenue by reducing the enormous gap between taxes legally owed and taxes actually paid."

Even if this was an accidental mix-up by Biden, it was a substantial mix-up. A positive economic forecast from former tax chiefs is almost certainly less likely to sound impressive to the public than a positive economic forecast from people who ran the US central bank and are among the nation's best-known economic figures. And, again, there was no economic forecast at all in the tax chiefs' article.

The most recent past leader of the Fed, Janet Yellen, is now Biden's Treasury Secretary. Her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, now a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, said in an email to CNN on Monday: "I have not made any public remarks on the infrastructure plan, so far as I can recall." The other living past Fed chair, Alan Greenspan, has also not weighed in on the plan; he could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday.

An exaggeration on the pay gap between CEOs and workers
Biden claimed in a speech in Louisiana on Thursday that "it used to be that a corporate CEO got paid 36 times as much as the average employee in their corporation in the Fortune 500; now, it's 456 times." He made a similar claim at the White House the day prior, saying that the average CEO of Fortune 500 companies now makes "over 450 times" what the average employee makes.

Facts First: Biden's "456 times" figure was wrong based on the most recent available data, as the White House official acknowledged to CNN on Monday -- though he was broadly correct that the gap between CEO pay and worker pay has skyrocketed over time. The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, found that in 2019, CEOs of the 350 US companies with the largest sales earned 320 times more than the typical worker at those companies, not 456 times. Biden was in the ballpark on the situation in decades past; the same think tank found that there was a 21-to-1 ratio between CEO and worker pay in 1965 and about a 31-to-1 ratio in 1978.

As the White House official noted on Monday, Biden accurately cited the Economic Policy Institute figure in his late-April address to Congress, saying then: "According to one study, CEOs make 320 times what the average worker in their corporation makes. It used to be in the -- below a hundred."

A misleading jobs claim is back
On May 2, we pointed out that, after early-April fact checks from CNN and others, Biden's team had stopped wrongly claiming or suggesting that economic firm Moody's Analytics found that the American Jobs Plan proposal would create 19 million jobs.

Well, Biden made a version of the claim last week. In a slightly different form than the original, but that new form was misleading too -- and Biden added an additional inaccuracy this time.

In his Thursday speech in Louisiana, Biden said, "All the economists, including the liberal as well as conservative think tanks, point out what we'll create when we pass this Jobs Plan -- we'll create up to 16 million good-paying jobs." And in the White House speech the day prior, Biden said, "You have Moody's talking about increasing it up to -- I don't know what the most recent one is -- 16 million new jobs."

Facts First: Biden was wrong when he suggested in Louisiana that liberal and conservative economists and think tanks all agree that the American Jobs Plan will create up to 16 million jobs; there is no consensus of any kind on how many jobs the plan will create. And contrary to Biden's suggestion at the White House, even Moody's did not say the plan would create up to 16 million jobs. Rather, Moody's estimated in May that the economy will create about 16.5 million jobs between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the fourth quarter of 2030 if the American Jobs Plan is not passed, or create about 19.2 million jobs if Biden's plan is passed. In other words, Moody's found that the passage of the American Jobs Plan would produce 2.7 million additional jobs, not up to 16 million.

In fairness, Biden didn't explicitly say that the American Jobs Plan itself would create up to 16 million jobs; he said in Louisiana that "we'll create" up to 16 million many jobs when the plan is passed. This is why we don't call this version of the claim flatly false. But as in April, when Biden used a "19 million jobs" figure, the President's artful language last week led listeners toward an inaccurate conclusion -- Moody's says passing the Biden plan means 16 million more jobs! -- that is more favorable to him than the truth: Moody's says passing the Biden plan means 2.7 million more jobs.

Biden was more careful in his address to Congress in April. He said in that speech that the plan will create "millions" of jobs.
Not a consensus

It is obviously not true that "all the economists, including the liberal as well as conservative think tanks," have come to the same conclusion on the potential impact of the American Jobs Plan.

One example of the non-consensus: Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, told CNN on Monday that he thinks Biden's plan will not produce a net result of any additional jobs

Strain said it's good that Biden's plan aims to make long-term infrastructure improvements over a period of years rather than trying to give the economy a quick jolt through immediate spending on so-called "shovel-ready" projects. But Strain said that, because the economy is already likely to be at full employment over this extended time horizon, the number of additional jobs the Biden plan will create "is zero." The plan, Strain argued, is likely to merely shift jobs toward industries "favored by the infrastructure plan," such as clean energy, while shifting them away from other industries.

There's no need here to interrogate Strain's opinions. The point is that, clearly, not everyone across the political spectrum and economic spectrum shares the Moody's assessment that the plan will produce 2.7 million jobs by the end of 2030 -- let alone Biden's suggestion that it will produce up to 16 million jobs.

Another analysis, by the firm S&P Global, also came to a different conclusion than Moody's. S&P did not look at the particulars of Biden's plan, but it estimated that a hypothetical $2.1 trillion in infrastructure spending -- more than Biden is proposing, whatever definition of "infrastructure" you use -- would result in a net 713,000 additional jobs by 2029. (The analysis found that there would be 2.3 million additional jobs by 2024 as infrastructure projects were completed, but that the jobs impact of the plan would decline later in the decade.)

 

I am actually glad to see treasonous conservative/Republican governors cutting off their noses to spite their Trump cock sucking faces. That will go over really well with their constituents.

But in the meantime President Biden and his administration continue to move at light speed to help the American people and dig the US out of the shit hole Trump and treasonous conservative/Republicans put us into.

They tried 100 times to kill the ACA and now its more popular and stronger than ever.

Biden announces 1 million have enrolled in special ObamaCare sign-up period

https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...-enrolled-in-special-obamacare-sign-up-period

 

And at what cost to taxpayers?
Don't bother; that was a rhetorical question.

 

Illegal immigrants SMH!

 

Biden is a certified failure in 5 months, everything Biden touched turned to shit, America and the world is spinning out of control because Biden lives in a vacuum of reality

Battered Biden under siege as crises confound the White House
Remarkable 5 days of bad developments stretching from Israel to Mexican border, up East Coast via Colonial Pipeline


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-israel-mexican-border-colonial-pipeline

 

STOP.... just stop it...

This is not the failures of the Crime boss Biden and the Ho (half cracker 3.0) Administration...these are in fact....ACHIEVEMENTS.... of the Crime boss Biden and the Ho (half cracker 3.0) Administration

80 million did not vote for this.

 

Wonder when China will claim Taiwan and Russia take Ukraine...despots have a free reign in the world Biden cant do shit!

 

More than 120 retired generals and admirals wrote to Biden suggesting he wasn't legitimately elected and questioning his mental health (yahoo.com)
More than 120 retired generals and admirals wrote to Biden suggesting he wasn't legitimately elected and questioning his mental health

• A group named "Flag Officers 4 America" released a letter signed by 124 former military leaders.
  
  
• The letter questioned the 2020 election result and Biden's physical and mental health.
  
  
• One serving Navy leader told Politico the letter was "disturbing and reckless."
  
  
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More than 120 retired US military leaders have signed an open letter appearing to advance a false conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was rigged, and questioning President Joe Biden's mental capacity to rule.

"Without fair and honest elections that accurately reflect the 'will of the people' our Constitutional Republic is lost," said the letter released Tuesday by "Flag Officers 4 America," and signed by 124 former admirals and generals.

"The FBI and Supreme Court must act swiftly when election irregularities are surfaced and not ignore them as was done in 2020."

On its website, Flag Officers 4 America says it is a collection of "retired military leaders who pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

In the letter, the signatories, many of whom have been out of active service for decades, also addressed concerns over Biden's health.

"The mental and physical condition of the Commander in Chief cannot be ignored. He must be able to quickly make accurate national security decisions involving life and limb anywhere, day or night," the letter said.

Insider has contacted the Department of Defense for comment.

Throughout the 2020 election campaign former President Donald Trump regularly cast doubts on Biden's health and suitability to rule, calling him "Sleepy Joe" and saying in March 2020 that there was "something going on" with Biden's mental abilities.

Earlier this month Biden's personal doctor, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, released a report on the president's health, in which he called him a "healthy, vigorous, 77-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency."

 

6 months late with that letter...but what the fuck, as they say...better late than never.

 

Many more current servicemen feel the same way but can't speak openly because they are currently serving and are on active duty....

 

Look at America today, look at the world, ...everything Biden and democrats touch turns to shit, then MSM spreads it like its great on a Ritz

 

Well the Democrats better like the smell of shit because that is what they will be smelling every time biden walks into the room wearing one of his loaded diaper's....

 

Joe Biden's Brain Is Broken
By Bonchie | May 12, 2021 5:45 PM ET





As I wrote last night, we don’t appear to currently have a president (see We Don’t Have a President). Joe Biden, who has never been the sharpest tool in the shed, has seen his mental capacity greatly restrict over the last few years. There are plenty of recent examples you can note by clicking here, here, and here.


It’s getting so obvious that it’s actually uncomfortable to witness. This is a guy who was completely missing in action yesterday even as an American ally in the Middle East burned. He seems to have good days and bad days, and even when they manage to trot him out, you get weirdness like this.


These are the musings of a senile old man who can’t think on the fly anymore. He just says things, and rarely do they make sense. How exactly is he going to just “snap his fingers” and get GOP buy-in on all his disastrous policies? And if he’s joking, isn’t that kind of an odd tick? Where’s the actual joke?

Past that, we have a major pipeline in the United States shut down due to a cyberattack, likely from a foreign adversary, and all Biden can manage to mutter is something about giving more money to teachers’ unions so people ten years from now can graduate and be better at cybersecurity? Wait, what? We need a solution to this crisis now and I thought we had an FBI that is supposed to handle that stuff. Does Biden not realize how dumb he sounds?

Then there’s this constant quip he uses about getting in trouble for talking to reporters.



Do we have a president or a guy being led around by the nose by handlers who call all the shots? It sure seems like the latter. He’s said this at least half a dozen times since becoming president. Who is going to get him trouble? Why are reporters bad for asking him questions? This is a guy who has clearly been told to not take impromptu inquiries because his brain is so prone to breaking. Given that, he could at least play it off as just ignoring the press instead of seemingly admitting that someone else is pulling the strings. He’s not even capable of keeping that facade up, though. It’s all so very weird.

This is not how the leader of the free world talks, but it’s how Joe Biden talks. That has profound consequences as our adversaries are lashing out across the globe.



We are in trouble. This man is not up to the job, and that has never been more clear after the events of the last week. Biden has taken a recovery that was on cruise control and run it into a tree. Inflation is killing the middle class, job growth is stagnating, and we’ve lost the gains we made against Iran, the Palestinians, China, and Russia. None of this is going to work out well.

 

Democrats pass the baton