'I didn't choose this. I beg them to extend it.' Still-unemployed workers plead for Congress to extend weekly federal unemployment benefits
Munzer, a yoga and fitness instructor in New York City, lost her jobs at several sports clubs in mid-March amid the coronavirus pandemic. She depends on the enhanced payment to cover her rent and health insurance and buy food for herself and her daughter, Olivia. The roughly $500 she receives in state benefits isn't enough, she said.Cathy Munzer, a yoga and fitness instructor in New York, is urging Congress to extend the $600 weekly boost to unemployment benefits.
Now, lawmakers have only a few weeks left to decide whether to renew the $600 weekly boost in benefits. But they are split along party lines. Democrats generally favor extending the program, while Republicans fear that the generous enhancement creates a disincentive for people to return to work. Roughly two-thirds of recipients are now making more on unemployment than they did in wages, according to University of Chicago researchers.
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