South Dakota is the first state to decline the extra unemployment benefits under President Donald Trump’s executive memorandum he issued more than a week ago.
Francis Stallings tapes signs to her car before participating in a caravan rally down the Las Vegas Strip in support of extending the $600 unemployment benefit, August 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. — and backed by corresponding statements from White House officials — jobless Americans would get an extra $300 from federal funds and potentially another $100 from states, depending on how a state chooses to allocate funds.
The move came after talks between the GOP and Democrats stalled in Congress over what the next stimulus package would look like.experts noted“It would cost New York State $4 billion between now and December to pay 25% of the unemployment insurance,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York told reporters. “If [the president] thinks this is a resolution, this only makes a bad situation worse.”President Donald J. Trump speaks with South Dakota Gov.
There are also concerns about how long it would take to disburse these funds, which could take at least a month. “If it was an act of Congress, they could just use their regular system to pay these benefits,” Michele Evermore, a senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, previously told Yahoo Money.Trump’s memorandum comes after more than 30 million Americans lost the additional $600 in weekly unemployment benefits under the CARES Act at the end of July. These jobless workers have experienced a median drop in benefits between 52% and 72%, according to an analysis by Evercore ISI.
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