{"id":500040,"date":"2021-05-12T11:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500040"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:51:24","slug":"fact-check-chris-cuomo-says-americans-are-literally-starving-without-300-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-chris-cuomo-says-americans-are-literally-starving-without-300-unemployment-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Chris Cuomo Says Americans Are \u2018Literally Starving\u2019 Without $300 Unemployment Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-chris-cuomo-says-americans-are-literally-starving-without-300-unemployment-benefits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1149280628.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>April\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-unemployment-rate-increases-numbers-way-worse-than-expected-talk-of-inflation-grows\">dismal<\/a> employment report drives home the fact that an extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits effectively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-struggles-disastrous-jobs-report-shows-america-is-on-the-right-track\">pays<\/a> workers to stay at home, making it more profitable for them to remain out of work than to pursue a job. In response, a number of Republican governors have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-about-as-close-to-socialism-that-ive-seen-5-gop-governors-reject-bidens-increased-unemployment-benefits\">canceled<\/a> the unemployment bonuses in their states, while the Biden administration and its defenders have concocted dubious-sounding stories about how these extra unemployment benefits are necessary in the midst of a hiring boom.<\/p>\n<p>CNN host Chris Cuomo elevated the UI bonus to the status of life-saving necessity on his program this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are literally starving\u201d even with the additional government boost, he said on Monday\u2019s \u201cCuomo Prime Time\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>People are literally starving in this country, still. Look at the numbers. They are starving in a way we\u2019ve never seen since we\u2019ve been alive. That\u2019s the impact of $300 a week. It can keep you out of that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat money matters for Americans, OK?\u201d said the youngest Cuomo. \u201cIt\u2019s a reflection of need, and also a reflection of how few people are paid well\u201d\u2014previewing the elitist argument that mom-and-pop stores which cannot afford to pay their employees $15 an hour deserve to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-terrible-jobs-report-is-the-pressure-we-need-to-pass-15-minimum-wage\">go out of business<\/a>. But let\u2019s take one argument at a time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this true? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a word, no: $300 a week in additional unemployment benefits isn\u2019t keeping anyone from starvation.<\/p>\n<p>America is the leading food <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/the-american-food-giant-the-largest-exporter-of-food-in-the-world.html\">exporter<\/a> in the world. Food banks and soup kitchens reach into every community. And Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) income guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/snap\/recipient\/eligibility\">allow<\/a> a family of four to earn up to $34,068 a year and still be eligible for food stamps \u2014 and the extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/19\/latest-stimulus-bill-expands-increased-food-stamps-through-september.html\">doesn\u2019t count<\/a> toward that limit. Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cAmerican Rescue Plan\u201d saw to it that those food stamps are increased by an extra 15% until September.<\/p>\n<p>So few Americans <em>die<\/em> of hunger every year that the government essentially stopped tracking it. The World in Data records that 0.69 Americans per 100,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/malnutrition-death-rates\">die<\/a> of malnutrition.\u00a0This is less from lack of access to food than mental health issues, abandonment, or abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Food is so abundant in America that we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifco.com\/countries-with-the-least-and-most-food-waste\/\">throw away<\/a> more food than any nation in the world. \u201cIn the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30\u201340 percent of the food supply,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/consumers\/food-loss-and-waste\">according<\/a> to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. \u201cWasted food is the single largest category of material placed in municipal landfills and represents nourishment that could have helped feed families in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach year, the food we waste costs the North American economy US$ 278 billion and could have fed 260 million people,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/north-america\/news\/detail\/en\/c\/1311537\/\">said<\/a> Armando Y\u00e1\u00f1ez Sandoval of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say everything is well. The COVID-19 global pandemic brought insecurity to millions of families\u2019 kitchens \u2014 and every other area of life. The GDP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-economy-implodes-shrinking-at-record-breaking-33-rate-last-quarter\">shrunk<\/a> at an annualized rate of 33% during the second quarter of 2020 due to the pandemic and its associated lockdowns. Extra unemployment benefits, originally of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jobless-claims-rise-after-weeks-of-decline-as-states-lock-down-again\">$600<\/a> a week, were meant to combat the fact that the government stopped an economic boom and told workers to \u201cstay home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the April jobs report shows that the bonuses have become counterproductive. In March, there were a record-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/job-openings-jolts-8-1-million-highest-level-on-record\/\">8.1 million<\/a> open jobs available, yet millions went unfulfilled because the government had essentially given them a better job.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s bad, because employment teaches skills, meets needs, serves others, builds wealth, increases national security, and helps a person use his or her God-given talents to support a family. Before the 2020 election, our national leaders used to talk about the benefits of work openly and proudly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It\u2019s about dignity. It\u2019s about respect. It\u2019s about being able to look your kid in the eye and say everything will be okay,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joebiden\/status\/1317623931914813444?lang=en\">said<\/a> presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo many people today can\u2019t do that \u2014 and it\u2019s got to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.226765799257\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A job is about a lot more than a paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about dignity. It&#8217;s about respect. It&#8217;s about being able to look your kid in the eye and say everything will be okay.<\/p>\n<p>Too many people today can&#8217;t do that \u2014 and it&#8217;s got to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1317623931914813444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April\u2019s dismal employment report drives home the fact that an extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits effectively pays workers to stay at home, making it more profitable for them &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277911,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1149280628.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Fact Check: Chris Cuomo Says Americans Are \u2018Literally Starving\u2019 Without $300 Unemployment Benefits","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1149280628.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Fact Check: Chris Cuomo Says Americans Are \u2018Literally Starving\u2019 Without $300 Unemployment Benefits","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}