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onethatcares

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15. I'm sure those people staying at home

Reply to Calculating (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 4, 2020, 03:08 PM

Jul 2020

are having a blast. Hell, it's 4th of July and congress is on vacation with the senate leader saying any type of extension of benefits is out of the question due to budgetary concerns from what I heard last. Meanwhile there are folks that are getting desperate,

The entire unemployment compensation system wasn't set up for 45,000,000 people to lose their job at the same time and not to know when and if they will ever go back to work. Hell, floriduh, where I am, still hasn't paid claims to some from the initial March layoff or furlough. How long do you think people can hang on.

The $600.00 extra seems extreme but it was a number that got adopted. How/why, I don't know but we are supposedly the wealthiest country in the world and if we can't alleviate the pain of the citizens, it's gonna get a lot worse.

I would feel a lot better if some kind of plan was being mentioned by our government instead of silence.

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'Eviction crisis': Housing advocates fear waves of homelessness as moratoriums expire [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2020 OP

And the republicans refuse to extend the $600 unemployment when MILLIONS are still out of work. BComplex Jul 2020 #1

Because it shouldn't be extended Calculating Jul 2020 #3

That's bassackwards. The people working SHOULD be making more than they're making. BComplex Jul 2020 #4

+1 Cal Carpenter Jul 2020 #8

I understand what you are saying but I think a better approach would be to be sure that totodeinhere Jul 2020 #5

I'm sure those people staying at home onethatcares Jul 2020 #15

I'm fine with extending the benefits at a lower number Calculating Jul 2020 #18

There was a Republican amendment voted down that would have capped UE at 100% of a person's wages Massacure Jul 2020 #19

And the problem is that most of those moratoriums do not cancel either rent or mortgage payments. totodeinhere Jul 2020 #2

I understand how they can make people pay for back mortgage payments MichMan Jul 2020 #9

They could try to move but if they skip out owing back rent they might have trouble totodeinhere Jul 2020 #10

Anyone behind now is likely going to be evicted when the prohibition is eventually lifted madville Jul 2020 #11

Sad but true. We definitely need more government intervention in this area. totodeinhere Jul 2020 #16

Friends i Denver and LA have told me that there are already hundreds of people living in the streets randr Jul 2020 #6

I had no idea! Where is the reporting indeed!! Rachel Maddow has a web site where we can report BComplex Jul 2020 #12

And of course the homeless may find it difficult to socially distance so covi-19 is running totodeinhere Jul 2020 #17

Republicans I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #7

Hear! Hear! BComplex Jul 2020 #13

You are welcome BComplex I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #14