2000 miles. Trump didn't promise to build "some wall" and Mexico didn't pay for itAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:17 pmWell, no. actually trump built some wall, in case you missed it. surprisingly, around 450 miles, i think. Which is quite a bit when you consider the border is only about 1450 miles.CaptQuint wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:12 pmSo he's just stealing Trump's lie, got itAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:11 pmI think that is Abbott trying to score media points with an election on the horizon.CaptQuint wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:05 pm Texas will build a wall along its border with Mexico, governor says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... reg-abbott
Well, that sounds like a good use of money mere months after the Texas power grid totally failed and caused people to freeze to death.
Biden labor shortage at record levels
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80 miles worth of border wall construction happened in locations where no barriers previously existed.Stapes wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:19 pmThey built 47 miles of barriers where none existed beforeAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:17 pmWell, no. actually trump built some wall, in case you missed it. surprisingly, around 450 miles, i think. Which is quite a bit when you consider the border is only about 1450 miles.CaptQuint wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:12 pmSo he's just stealing Trump's lie, got itAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:11 pmI think that is Abbott trying to score media points with an election on the horizon.CaptQuint wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:05 pm Texas will build a wall along its border with Mexico, governor says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... reg-abbott
Well, that sounds like a good use of money mere months after the Texas power grid totally failed and caused people to freeze to death.
Update your spreadsheet. you googled an old article.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/verif ... 41b980d61b
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47 miles of primary wall where none existed before and thirty something miles of secondary to reinforce barrier. You better update your spreadsheet. Either way not 450 milesAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:21 pm80 miles worth of border wall construction happened in locations where no barriers previously existed.Stapes wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:19 pmThey built 47 miles of barriers where none existed beforeAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:17 pmWell, no. actually trump built some wall, in case you missed it. surprisingly, around 450 miles, i think. Which is quite a bit when you consider the border is only about 1450 miles.CaptQuint wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:12 pmSo he's just stealing Trump's lie, got itAnimal wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:11 pmI think that is Abbott trying to score media points with an election on the horizon.CaptQuint wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:05 pm Texas will build a wall along its border with Mexico, governor says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... reg-abbott
Well, that sounds like a good use of money mere months after the Texas power grid totally failed and caused people to freeze to death.
Update your spreadsheet. you googled an old article.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/verif ... 41b980d61b
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Can anybody tell me how much Mexico has paid so far for that wall? Oh that's right... nothing
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I posted the link. Its not some right wing propoganda source. 450 miles of wall was either built new or replaced because it was falling apart and in areas that need it desperately (which is why it was there in the first place). You can play your game of trying to discount every single iota of accomplishment he made, but it doesn't change the facts.
453 miles.
that's not even counting the 211 more miles that were "under construction" that Biden pulled the plug so he could allow 2 million illegals to cross.
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Damn. Thats a solid unassailable fact-laden rebuttal right there.
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You mean when I say that to the guy who posts obvious lies here on the daily?
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Biden returns $26M in border wall money to Norfolk Naval Shipyard
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — President Joe Biden is sending $26 million in federal funds back to a U.S. Navy shipyard in Virginia. The money had been diverted by President Donald Trump to pay for a wall along the Mexico border.
The Virginian-Pilot reported Monday that the shipyard money is a sliver of the $3.6 billion that Trump had moved from the Department of Defense to pay for the wall. The Biden administration is now sending billions of dollars back to a series of military projects.
A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico on June 10, 2021, in Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (Eugene Garcia/AP)
Biden to return $2 billion diverted from Pentagon projects for border wall
The administration said it would return $2 billion taken from the Pentagon and use it for the construction projects for which the money was originally intended.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth will use the $26 million to address numerous safety violations in one of its buildings. They include a lack of sprinklers, poor placement of fire alarms and no mass notification system.
“The prior administration’s failure to repair this building has left military personnel working in a high risk environment and undermined Navy operations at the facility,” the White House said in a statement.
The facility builds and repairs U.S. Navy ships. Its life raft inspection and repair operation is the only such facility on the East Coast.
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. — President Joe Biden is sending $26 million in federal funds back to a U.S. Navy shipyard in Virginia. The money had been diverted by President Donald Trump to pay for a wall along the Mexico border.
The Virginian-Pilot reported Monday that the shipyard money is a sliver of the $3.6 billion that Trump had moved from the Department of Defense to pay for the wall. The Biden administration is now sending billions of dollars back to a series of military projects.
A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico on June 10, 2021, in Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (Eugene Garcia/AP)
Biden to return $2 billion diverted from Pentagon projects for border wall
The administration said it would return $2 billion taken from the Pentagon and use it for the construction projects for which the money was originally intended.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth will use the $26 million to address numerous safety violations in one of its buildings. They include a lack of sprinklers, poor placement of fire alarms and no mass notification system.
“The prior administration’s failure to repair this building has left military personnel working in a high risk environment and undermined Navy operations at the facility,” the White House said in a statement.
The facility builds and repairs U.S. Navy ships. Its life raft inspection and repair operation is the only such facility on the East Coast.
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Private Payrolls Rose by 692,000 in June
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Private payrolls growth increased at a faster rate than expected in June, ADP data showed Wednesday, suggesting that the decisions in Republican-led states to end super-sized unemployment benefits are spurring Americans to accept the millions of jobs businesses have opened in recent months.
The gain of 692,000 was well above the 550,000 Econoday estimate. But it fell short of May’s 886,000, which itself was revised down from the preliminary estimate of 978,000. Despite the revision, May was the best month in ADP data since September of last year.
Hiring surged in the leisure and hospitality sector, ADP data show. Businesses added 332,000 jobs in the sector, making it the strongest of the ADP report’s 10-sectors.
The goods-producing sector added 62,000 jobs. Two thousand of those were in mining, 19,000 in manufacturing, and 47,000 in construction. Manufacturing and construction were early leaders in the labor market recovery, reflecting a boom in the housing market and high demand for goods while much of the services sector remained closed or operating at limited capacity.
The service providing side of the economy, which is much larger than the goods-producing side, added 664,000 jobs. After hospitality and leisure, health and education added the most jobs at 123,000. Trade, transportation, and utilities added 62,000 and professional and business services added 53,000.
Jobs were added pretty evenly across business sizes. Small businesses with less than 50 employees added 215,000 jobs. Medium businesses, those with less than 500 workers, added 236,000. Larger businesses added 240,000.
ADP’s report has had trouble aligning with the Department of Labor’s official jobs numbers throughout the pandemic, indicating that the rapid closures and reopenings of businesses and sectors of the economy has made it harder to produce accurate data. The Labor Department’s jobs figures for June will be released Friday. Economists expect payrolls to grow by 675,000, including 555,000 in the private sector. If the ADP estimate is correct, the official numbers should beat estimates.
Twenty-one states have ended the extra $300 per week payments that the federal government was adding to state unemployment benefits, which average around $320 a week. With those payments, out-of-work Americans received the equivalent of around $18 per hour, making the benefit level so high that nearly half of the unemployed were receiving more in benefits than they did in compensation when they were working. That effectively priced millions of Americans out of the job market.
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States Ending Ultra-Generous Welfare Are Doing Better in One Big Way, New Data Show
We’ve got a new contender in the competition for the least surprising news development of all time. As it turns out, if you pay people more to stay on unemployment welfare than they can earn working, and then scale back the benefits, more people will go back to work. Shocking!
Some have denied and pushed back against this basic economic reality, largely for political and partisan reasons. But new data on the unemployment trends across states taking different approaches to unemployment welfare make this truth truly impossible to deny.
Recent history offers us something of a natural experiment. The $300/week federal supplement on top of existing state-level unemployment benefits is set to expire at the end of September. Yet the dysfunctional expansion of the welfare system has meant that 42 percent of the unemployed can earn the same or more by not working. In 21 states, unemployed households can earn the equivalent of $25/hour while not working.
The work disincentives here are obvious. It’s hardly shocking that a record-breaking number of small businesses report being unable to fill their job openings.
Our monthly #smallbusiness #jobs report out today shows a record 44% of all #smallbiz owners with job openings they could not fill. April is the third consecutive month with a record-high reading of unfilled job openings. More from the report: https://t.co/OwUPFgSFDC
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So, dozens of conservative-leaning states have discontinued the benefits early, while dozens of liberal-leaning states have left it in place.
Thanks to recently released Labor Department data on unemployment claims, we can now, quite predictably, see the welfare rolls expanding in the states where the unemployment bonus remains in place. Yet the number of people on welfare is rapidly shrinking in the states where the supplement is set to expire or already has expired.
“The 26 states that have announced their plan to end participation in the $300 weekly unemployment bonus have seen a 12.7 percent decline on average in initial claims over the past week,” the fiscally-conservative Foundation for Government Accountability reports. “Meanwhile, states that have indicated they will continue participating in the unemployment bonus programs have seen an increase in initial claims by an average of 1.6 percent during this same period. The 12 states that have officially opted out of the $300 weekly bonus thus far have seen consistent declines each week since ending participation in the bonus.”
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Wow. Ending welfare get people back to working. What an odd concept.
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Report: 1.8 Million Americans Have Turned Down Jobs To Stay On Unemployment
A new poll indicates that 1.8 million Americans have turned down job offers in order to stay on unemployment insurance.
Morning Consult surveyed 463 out-of-work American adults at the end of June. 13% — roughly one in eight — said that they had refused job offers while unemployed because they “receive enough money from unemployment insurance without having to work.” Others said that child care obligations, worries over COVID-19, and a lack of job flexibility limited their willingness to take new positions.
Because 14.1 million adults were collecting benefits at the time of the survey, Morning Consult calculated that roughly 1.8 million Americans turned down jobs due to the handouts.
Under President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the federal government funded $300-per-week enhanced unemployment insurance — a policy that has caused sluggish labor market recovery. Twenty-six states — all but one of which are led by Republicans — have therefore opted out of the program.
As personal finance company WalletHub recently found, nine of the ten states with the most robust labor market recoveries — Vermont, Utah, Nebraska, South Dakota, Idaho, New Hampshire, Alabama, Kansas, Montana, and Oklahoma — have Republican governors. Meanwhile, all of the bottom ten — Illinois, New Jersey, Louisiana, the District of Columbia, California, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, and Hawaii — are run by Democrats.
Another recent report explained that many blue states are offering benefit packages “equivalent to $100,000 a year in salary for a family of four with two unemployed parents.” Even without considering “food stamps, school breakfast and lunch programs, rental assistance, and the fact that some unemployment benefits are not subject to federal income tax,” analysts discovered that “the maximum benefit package when including the $300 a week supplemental UI benefit” vastly outweighs median household income.
The Federal Reserve’s semiannual report to Congress implicated federal unemployment insurance as one cause of labor market distortions — although the central bank refrained from urging policymakers to rescind it:
With economic activity rebounding, labor demand rose briskly in the spring, while the supply of labor struggled to keep up. Employers reported widespread hiring difficulties, job openings jumped to about 30 percent above the average level for 2019, and the ratio of job openings to job seekers surged… enhanced unemployment benefits have allowed potential workers to be more selective and reduce the intensity of their job search.
Some businesses have therefore resorted to offering signing bonuses, retention bonuses, and other incentives for employees who are willing to work. Job listing company Indeed revealed in June that the number of postings on their site with such perks climbed to 4.1% — more than double the percentage listed in June 2020.
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Imagine being this pathetic and worthless. And you people wonder why I hate the poors
Unemployed Americans file lawsuits against states ending COVID relief
Lawsuits seeking to preserve pandemic-era unemployment benefits are increasing as states across the country seek to halt the federal payments so residents will go back to work.
More than two dozen states have sought to upend the federal unemployment payments of $300 a month that Congress extended earlier this year through Sept. 6.
But at least six of the states are facing lawsuits over their moves, and two judges have been sympathetic to the claims thus far.
The latest legal case was filed in Florida this week against state officials and Gov. Ron DeSantis, who announced in May that his state would stop distributing the federal super-charged monthly payments.
“Each of the Plaintiffs have suffered economic hardships because of COVID, have had difficulty finding work and now, with the discontinuation of the [Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation], face even more pressing financial hardships,” the 15-page lawsuit read.
The complaint was filed in Broward County, Florida, by 10 residents who all said they either lost work or can’t find employment due to the pandemic.
Heather Fulop, one of the plaintiffs, is a single mother who worked as a nurse in the NICU, but lost her hours due to the pandemic. Gia Cuccaro, another plaintiff, can’t find work as a paralegal and is about to be evicted.
The lawsuit charges that Florida officials are running afoul of state law by not working with the U.S. Labor Department to funnel the money to residents in need.
A spokesperson at the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, which is a named defendant in the lawsuit, said the agency “contests the alleged violation of law.”
The department implemented a “Return to Work” initiative, which included ending participation in the federal pandemic unemployment benefits. Florida’s unemployment rate of 5% is lower than the national average of 5.9%.
The governor, meanwhile, previously said he ended federal unemployment because it was time for people to get back on their feet after the 2020 crisis.
“We got almost half a million job openings in the state of Florida,” Mr. DeSantis said at a press conference last month.
One of the plaintiffs in the Florida case, Luisa Cocozelli, has been out of work due to the cruise industry not being back up and running with passengers.
Mr. DeSantis is suing the federal government to get the cruise ships back in business. A federal appeals court lifted the COVID requirements last week, allowing Florida cruises to get back on the water without meeting various hurdles set out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Other legal battles over ending unemployment have been filed in Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Maryland and Indiana.
A judge in Baltimore issued an injunction earlier this month, preventing the state of Maryland from ending federal unemployment benefits related to the coronavirus pandemic. And a judge in Indiana also ordered that state to restart the $300 monthly payments.
Though the different lawsuits are moving through various states, Scott Behren, who represents the Florida plaintiffs, said he doubts the issue will end up before the Supreme Court.
“It’s really a question of state law,” he said.
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Man there’s a lot of griping here.
No cashiers for the local grocery store. They can’t attract workers because of the commute and the fact that the union contract forbids paying some more for the same position than others.
No cashiers for the local grocery store. They can’t attract workers because of the commute and the fact that the union contract forbids paying some more for the same position than others.
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September unemployment cliff looms for 7 million Americans
More than 7 million Americans are set to lose their unemployment aid immediately after Labor Day, even as the delta variant poses new challenges to the economic recovery.
Gig workers and other unemployed Americans receiving aid through programs created for the pandemic will see those checks end on Sept. 7, along with the $300 weekly federal supplement to traditional jobless benefits.
Even if Biden decides he wants to change course, Congress would need to pass legislation. And a bill to extend unemployment benefits would almost certainly face universal GOP opposition.
“I’m done with extensions,” Manchin told Insider last week. “The economy is stronger now, the job market is stronger. Nine million jobs we can’t fill. We’re coming back.”
The U.S. added 943,000 jobs in July and saw the unemployment rate drop from 5.9 percent to 5.4 percent as the country ended the month with a record 10 million job openings. Labor force participation also picked up as an increasing percentage of workers got vaccinated and returned to the job search.
But progressives argue it’s still too soon to pull support for struggling Americans given the uncertainty created by another wave of COVID-19 and disparities in the pace of recovery along demographic lines.
While the unemployment rate for whites dropped to 4.8 percent in July, the Black unemployment rate fell from 9.2 percent to a still-high 8.2 percent because of a significant drop in labor force participation. Hispanic unemployment fell from 7.4 percent to 6.6 percent without a decline in the labor force, but it is still considerably above the jobless rate for whites.
“Our long-term unemployed, our Black and Latinx workers continue to need these benefits because, due to systemic racism, they face longer periods of unemployment,” said Jenna Gerry, senior staff attorney with the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group that supports expanded jobless benefits and greater labor protections.
“By cutting this off, we're going to exacerbate the inequity that already exists within our economy.”
Gerry and other experts estimate that 7.5 million stand to lose all of their unemployment aid after Labor Day. The group includes 4.3 million gig workers and contractors who are recipients of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and roughly 3.2 million Americans receiving Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, which provides up to 53 weeks of additional aid for those who’ve exceeded their state allowances.
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i have no doubt that date will be extended.
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well, like the eviction moratorium, they can always use some agency to pass something, legal or not. Then let it go through some courts to delay it.
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That strategy sounds familiar. Like Trump's tax records
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