McConnell: Beshear should end extra $300 a week in unemployment insurance benefits [View all]
SHELBYVILLE -- U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voiced disagreement Wednesday with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for not ending the extra $300 a week in unemployment insurance benefits that has been available throughout much of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I do disagree with the governor,” McConnell said at a Wednesday news conference at Citizens Union Bank in Shelbyville after privately meeting with local officials. “I think we are now at a competitive disadvantage with every state around us except for Illinois.”
Twenty-three states — including all those surrounding Kentucky except for Illinois — have discontinued the federal bonus that is to run through September. They raise concerns that the extra money is keeping workers from applying for available jobs. Many dispute that contention, saying businesses should raise pay to entice workers.
The extra pay, made possible through the federal American Rescue Plan passed in March, is to end Sept. 6,
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