National Economic Council Director Kudlow Reiterates that “Extra” Six Hundred Dollar a Week Unemployment Checks End in July
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National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow reiterated Sunday the $600 additional weekly unemployment benefit created to aid those who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic will end in late July.”I mean, we’re paying people not to work. It’s better than their salaries would get,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“That might have worked for the first couple of months. It’ll end in late July,” he added, saying the extra benefit was necessary during the height of the coronavirus lockdowns.
Pier 1 Imports has become the latest retailer knocked against the ropes by the “new reality” of online shopping and finished off by COVID-19. Nearly 60 years after its first store opened — and three months after filing for bankruptcy — the company announced Tuesday that it wants to close all retail operations “as soon as reasonably possible.” The explosion in online shopping, intense competition from larger chains and the coronavirus pandemic “are requiring us to wind down,” Robert Riesbeck, Pier 1’s chief executive and chief financial officer, said in a statement. “This decision follows months of working to identify a buyer who would continue to operate our business going forward,” Riesbeck said. Source: Pier 1 Closing All Stores For Good, Cites ‘New Reality, Uncertainty Of Post-COVID World’ The article was originally published here!
Joe Diffie, a Nineties country music star known for hits like ‘Pickup Man,’ died Sunday due to complications from the coronavirus. Source: Joe Diffie, Nineties Country’s ‘Pickup Man,’ Dead at 61 From Coronavirus The article was originally published here!
Scott Jensen, a prominent Minnesota Republican candidate for governor with a track record of COVID-19 theories not shared by the medical community, has signed onto an effort to stop vaccinations for 12- to 16-year-olds. Jensen, a family physician from Chaska who served in the state Senate from 2017 to 2021, is the first named plaintiff in a petition filed in federal court in Alabama by America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that has attempted to diminish the pandemic that has killed more than 590,000 Americans and pushed misleading and false information about the coronavirus, its lethality and debunked treatments and preventions, such as the use of hydroxychloroquine. The group’s leader, Simone Gold, was among those who entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection that sought to halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory over then-President Donald Trump, Gold has confirmed to the Washington Post . She was later arrested and faces charges of entering a restric...
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow reiterated Sunday the $600 additional weekly unemployment benefit created to aid those who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic will end in late July.”I mean, we’re paying people not to work. It’s better than their salaries would get,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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