Re: Unemployment benefits and Obamacare subsidies outpace median income in several blue states, study finds

On 12/25/22 1:26 AM, Parasites wrote:
> Benefits amount to over $100,000 in three states for a family of
> four with two people not working
> 
> The labor force participation rate was 62.1% last month, notably
> lower than the 63.4% mark it was at before the coronavirus pandemic
> struck the United States in March 2020.
> 
> There are numerous reasons that unemployed Americans aren't entering
> the workforce, including ongoing fears of COVID-19, disabilities
> such as "long COVID," and other care responsibilities. One factor
> that is contributing to the relatively low labor force participation
> rate is the combination of unemployment benefits and recently
> expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, according a new study
> by the nonprofit Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
> 
> In 14 states, unemployment benefits and ACA subsidies for a family
> of four with two people not working amounts to an annualized
> equivalent of $80,000 a year in wages and benefits, the study found.
> 
> Those benefits come out to over $100,000 in three states –
> Washington, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
> 
> "A key policy question these days that has befuddled federal
> lawmakers is why so many millions of Americans have not returned to
> the workplace in the post-Covid era. The U.S. is ‘missing’ more than
> three million workers of working age that could be working and were
> working prior to Covid but are not today," University of Chicago
> economics professor Casey Mulligan and Heritage Foundation research
> fellow EJ Antoni wrote in the study.
> 
> "This study shows that one factor contributing to the dearth of
> workers is the generous benefits paid to families without workers."
> 
> The Inflation Reduction Act, which the Biden administration helped
> usher through Congress earlier this year, extended subsidies from
> the American Rescue Plan until 2025.
> 
> "The expansion of assistance, especially in subsidized health
> insurance to families with children and no parents working, can mean
> that families can earn as much or more income from receiving
> government assistance than the median household does from working,"
> the authors wrote.
> 
> <https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/unemployment-benefits-
> obamacare-subsidies-outpace-median-income-several-states-study-
> finds>


If government and it's programs and spending, grow faster than the GDP 
does, the Government will suck the life out of the economy.


It is a NATURAL limit on the Government growth and will collapse the 
economy when the Government corruption overwhelms the private sector.


We're almost to that point.


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