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Yes, but we don't cut people off of benefits because of "fairly low" unemployment. Were GOP governors itching to impoverish their own electorate in 2019? Why
by newacct583 5y ago
Yes, but we don't cut people off of benefits because of "fairly low" unemployment. Were GOP governors itching to impoverish their own electorate in 2019? Why not? What changed? (I mean, we know what changed. Minority parties have vested interest in government failure, and now that partisanship is nationalized GOP governors are actually incentivized to hurt the people that elected them if there's a Democratic federal government.)
- dv_dt 5y agoI didn't mean that as justification for cutting off benefits, it was unintended it if sounded that way. In fact I think Jerome Powell, Chair of the Fed has been quoted as saying he's not too worried about reports of employers complaining about hiring because he's looking at data on actual wages - and if the employers were participating in a labor market he would see increased wages as competition for labor.