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- The average weekly unemployment benefit is now $638 - $300 more than what it was 2019
- That means people are earning around $16-an-hour - more than double minimum wage which is at least $7.25 across America
- It is creating a nightmare scenario for the economy; businesses are desperate to recover from the pandemic but they can't fill their jobs
- It is forcing business owners to pay higher wages to attract workers, after a devastating year when they were financially knee-capped
- Restaurant owners, for example, say it's already driving inflation and the country isn't fully open again
- Republican states are cutting unemployment benefits to get people back to work
- Mitch McConnell said the government has 'flooded the zone with checks' and it has dissuaded people from looking for jobs
- Montana's Gov axed federal unemployment checks and instead, is giving people $1,200 bonuses to get jobs
- South Carolina is also scrapping the federal $300-a-week unemployment boost
- April's jobs growth was a quarter of what was expected at just 266,000 instead of 1million
- A third of the country has now been vaccinated and businesses should be reopening
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