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Liberals Should Decide Whether Being a Homemaker Is Demeaning or Worthy of Huge New Government Benefits
…is “welfare check.” Yet Rep. Moore argues her legislation promotes “an equitable, modern economy” in which unpaid caregivers would automatically receive an enlarged “maximum credit” previously reserved for only paid workers. An estimate of…
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Lawmakers Continue Trying to Revive Pandemic-Style Benefits
…unemployed. Except during the Great Recession and the pandemic, states have always contributed 50 percent to EB costs. The proposal would increase EB benefits from a current maximum of 20…
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Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate
On August 21, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited “improper payment report” on the troubled Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA was an unprecedented federal unemployment benefit program that…
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‘Child Allowances’ Revive Welfare as We Knew It
…Comparison of Maximum AFDC Payment and Proposed Child Allowance for a Household with Two Children under Age 6 State Maximum Monthly AFDC Payment in 1996 (in 2020 dollars) Proposed Monthly…