re: $800 a week if you are laid off?

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That’s part of the problem with the bill right now. Lindsey Graham said if you live in SC you would get $24.17/hour on unemployment. Gives the incentive for employers to lay people off. Who would want to go back to work making that kind of money?

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And yet these same senators (Sasse, the Scotts, Graham) were not only silent, but SUPPORTED, a $500B slush fund for large corporations.

Say you're a project coordinator, IT tech, or a bartender pulling down $50k a year and you lose your job because of Corona. What good are the current unemployment payments going to do to keep you from losing your home, ruining your credit, losing your vehicle, etc? It's not going to do shite. The $600/week bonus is basically a bailout to workers that will cost FAR less than the corporate bailout on the table.

This isn't about welfare queens or fricking slackasses, these are people who were working and lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Have some fricking empathy, assholes.