Republicans Are Sending A Message: ‘Let Them Eat Cake’
4 min readMay 21, 2021
A slew of Republican-led states are pulling the plug on unemployment benefits. Residents in well over a dozen states including Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Iowa will be kicked off unemployment programs by the end of June — two months before the federal benefits expire. It’s a decision that follows a dismal April jobs report, and it will spell disaster…