{"id":1024,"date":"2020-12-04T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T18:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=132693"},"modified":"2020-12-04T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T18:44:42","slug":"unemployment-remains-unacceptably-high-as-mcconnell-again-lowballs-struggling-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/04\/unemployment-remains-unacceptably-high-as-mcconnell-again-lowballs-struggling-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Remains Unacceptably High as McConnell Again Lowballs Struggling Families"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON – The Labor Department\u2019s November jobs report<\/a> shows that the Trump recession shows no signs of slowing down \u2014 leaving behind a worsening mess for President-elect Joe Biden. The unemployment rate is at an unacceptably high 6.7 percent and an even worse 10.3 percent in the African American community. More than 20 million Americans continue to draw jobless benefits amid an uncontrolled pandemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 270,000<\/a> Americans and is expected to claim hundreds of thousands<\/a> more. This on top of a \u201cbenefits cliff\u201d <\/a>and eviction crisis<\/a> looming just weeks away. Yet, Trump\u2019s top Senate ally Mitch McConnell continues to drag his feet on delivering urgently needed relief for workers, small businesses and states \u2014 dismissing a growing number<\/a> of colleagues from his own party that are ready to support a serious bipartisan pandemic package. <\/p>\n

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\u201cMitch McConnell is apparently ready to ruin the holidays and the economy for working families and small businesses unless he gets his way. His plan to shower corporations, millionaires, and CEOs with more handouts while giving virtually nothing to struggling workers and their families is beyond unacceptable,\u201d said Jeremy Funk, spokesperson for Accountable.US.<\/strong> \u201cMcConnell must pass a serious relief bill to provide help where it is actually needed, like the communities of color that were left behind during previous pandemic relief efforts.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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After letting the House-passed HEROES Act<\/a> to collect dust on his desk since May and wasting months trying to pack the federal courts<\/a>, the FEC<\/a>, and Fed Board<\/a> with  with as many controversial and unqualified Trump nominees as possible, McConnell claims he\u2019s now ready to play ball on pandemic relief. Yet rather than meet in the middle, McConnell demands everyone join him<\/a> on the extreme right with his own \u201cskinny\u201d proposal that does not begin to meet the magnitude of the crises families are suffering through. McConnell wants more non-starter tax breaks<\/a> for the wealthy, more giveaways to big coal<\/a>, and blanket immunity for corporations against claims from workers mistreated during the pandemic. McConnell\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t provide a penny for extra unemployment benefits, stimulus checks, or rental assistance, and does nothing to fix the major flaws in the PPP<\/a> that left most Black-owned small businesses in the cold. 
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