#667 - Extended unemployment benefits have caused ‘a whopping 1.8 million’ Americans to turn down jobs

Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) is shedding light on a recent marketing research report that estimates the end of federal unemployment benefits will lead to nearly 2 million jobs being filled through the end of the year.

Morning Consult reported that 26 governors chose to prematurely terminate the extra $300 per week unemployed workers were receiving under the American Rescue Plan because they argued the additional benefits were preventing individuals from returning to work.

“A new poll delivers a devastating blow to the latest lie from the mainstream media and Governor Pritzker about unemployment,” Caulkins wrote in a July 16 Facebook post. “A whopping 1.8 million Americans turned down jobs because the government extended unemployment benefits and it discouraged work.”

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