Rep. Dan Caulkins | Facebook
Rep. Dan Caulkins | Facebook
As businesses in all areas of commerce struggle to find employees to fill vacancies, politicians have argued about the merits of unemployment benefits that could potentially be keeping people from seeking employment.
The market research company Morning Consult reported that 26 governors opted to prematurely terminate federal benefits to unemployed workers.
About a third of unemployment insurance recipients have turned down job offers during the pandemic, the research company reported.
State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) said in a Facebook post that the report was indicative of why many governors chose to end federal benefits to unemployed workers.
"A new poll delivers a devastating blow to the latest lie from the mainstream media and Governor Pritzker about unemployment,” Caulkins wrote. “According to a poll from Morning Consult, a whopping 1.8 million Americans turned down jobs because the government extended unemployment benefits and it discouraged work.”
The 45% of people who turned down employment said a major reason why they turned it down was because they received unemployment insurance benefits, Morning Consult stated.
Rep. Caulkins leaned on the marketing research company article to keep pouncing on unemployment benefits.
“The outlet stated that 14.1 million Americans who were receiving unemployment insurance for the week ending June 19 that ‘benefits reduced the number of accepted job offers by an estimated 1.84 million over the course of the pandemic’” he said in his post.
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