Lawmakers in Washington DC are debating plans from the White House to infuse trillions more dollars into the economy and back infrastructure spending across the United States.
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says Democrats and Republicans both want the same thing. But they are seeking different ways of achieving it and he says pulling back support for people who have lost their jobs won’t help them return to jobs they might not be able to afford.
“They want to get people back to work and so do we. We want to get women back to work and ask women why they are not going back to work. First, the jobs aren’t paying nearly enough to support their families. Secondly, they are worried about their kids. They are afraid of what is going to happen to them in schools when they return there, if the schools are open and if the schools aren’t open and they don’t have daycare available, those mothers are staying home for obvious reasons for the sake of the children.”
A number of states are ending participation in the federal unemployment benefits program in the hopes of getting people back to work, but Illinois is not one of them.
***Report Courtesy of farmweeknow.com***
