Three days after denying hefty unemployment checks were keeping American workers home, President Joe Biden urged those living off the government to get back to work.
“Anyone collecting unemployment who is offered a suitable job must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits,” he said Monday.
Some are calling on Texas to follow South Carolina and Montana's lead in cutting off federal bonus payments to those refusing to go back to work.
The unemployment bonuses were first put into effect to help "flatten the curb," but Democrats have successfully kept them going as the COVID lockdowns continued over the past year.
“Basically what the federal government is paying you is an additional $300 per week in addition to whatever the state's unemployment benefits are paying you,” says Vance Ginn at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “If that amount ends up being more than what you earn if you go and get a job, your incentive is to stay home and now work.”
That leads us to the poll question today.