Bobby Jindal

Originally Posted by classicman

Please share. I got too tired last night to keep looking.
I am curious if this is the same issue I was talking about in another thread. The one where the states would be on the hook to continue funding certain things after the stimulus money was exhausted.

Guess it was just BS since no one else saw, heard or seems to care.

The "string" is a program in the bill that offers incentives to states willing to update their UC laws to include coverage for part-time workers (and some other low income jobs), currently not covered, but an increasingly large part of the unemployed in the country. Particularly, those who were hired to replace full-time workers then subsequently fired or layed off.

There is an additional $3 billion available and the complaint from a few governors is that the states would then be on the hook to continue to provide UC benefits to these part-time workers when the federal funds dry up.

It seems to me that the state can update their laws and include a sunset provision...."these part time workers are covered until such time as federal UC funds are no longer available."