No More ‘Freebies’ For ‘Fat Cats’: Iowa GOP Senator Wants Millionaires Off Welfare
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No More ‘Freebies’ For ‘Fat Cats’: Iowa GOP Senator Wants Millionaires Off Welfare
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst introduced a bill aimed at preventing millionaires from collecting unemployment benefits — a problem that had become widespread during the presidency of Joe Biden. The Ending Unemployment Payments to Jobless Millionaires Act would require state unemployment agencies to cross-check all available income data before approving benefit payments, according to the bill’s text. […] No More ‘Freebies’ For ‘Fat Cats’: Iowa …


No More ‘Freebies’ For ‘Fat Cats’: GOP Senator Wants Millionaires Off Welfare
Senator Joni Ernst introduced a bill aimed at preventing millionaires from collecting unemployment benefits.
Ernst: No More Handouts for The Idle Rich Living High Off the Hog - The Iowa Standard
Our nation’s safety net shouldn’t be strained by subsidizing the lifestyles of the self-sufficient. Yet, too many of the idle rich are living high off the hog, collecting government checks for not working, while at the same time earning a million dollars or more from some other side venture. Thousands of out-of-work millionaires were paid more than $271 million in unemployment assistance during the first two years of the Biden administration (am…
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