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Mike Kennedy: “During COVID with the expanded unemployment benefits that…”

Featuring: Mike Kennedy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 3rd Congressional District

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Why Rep. Mike Kennedy Says Welfare Needs Stronger Work Requirements

Published | Video Starts at 32:17

… not cutting them off immediately as soon as $1 more is made beyond the, the, the current standard that they have. So, so the idea that somebody, we saw that During COVID with the expanded unemployment benefits that people were making more on unemployment than they could going out in the market. And they stayed on those programs as long as they could, worsening our national debt and disabling these people from doing the kind of work that they should do. (32:17–32:27)

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Asserts that expanded unemployment benefits during COVID led to higher income than market jobs.

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