{"id":552748,"date":"2021-06-04T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552748"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:05:36","slug":"psaki-dodges-on-whether-unemployment-benefits-are-slowing-covid-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-on-whether-unemployment-benefits-are-slowing-covid-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Dodges On Whether Unemployment Benefits Are Slowing COVID Recovery"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fpsaki-dodges-on-whether-unemployment-benefits-are-slowing-covid-recovery%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=552748&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\/joe-biden-1-scaled-e1622233269944.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">White House Press Secretary declined to say whether the Biden administration\u2019s additional unemployment benefits are slowing down the return of the workforce Friday, saying it is \u201ca really difficult thing to analyze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Republicans on Capitol Hill have argued that ramped-up benefits are incentivizing some Americans to stay home rather than return to work. The White House and President Joe Biden denied the connection following a weak jobs report in April, but the denial appears to have softened after Friday\u2019s May jobs report <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/economy-may-jobs-report-labor-department-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">once again<\/a> fell short of predictions. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/07\/april-job-growth-expectations-joe-biden-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: April Job Growth Was Far Short Of Expectations. Here\u2019s Why Hiring Slowed)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cDoes the president believe these unemployment benefits are playing a role here?\u201d a reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cAgain, I think that\u2019s a really difficult thing to analyze, given we have created a historic number of jobs in the last four months,\u201d Psakis responded. \u201cThe UI benefits haven\u2019t even been pulled back in any state.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Psaki went on to say that governors who choose not to accept the enhanced benefits in their states have every right to do so, but clarified that no state\u2019s rejection has yet gone into effect.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cWe understand there\u2019s politics at play here, that\u2019s ok. Every governor is going to make their own decision,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3207547169811\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">???????????? PSAKI says the GOP governors cutting supplemental unemployment benefits \u201chave every right to do\u201d so<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JStein_WaPo\/status\/1400876608408391681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3609467455621\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Psaki declines to say whether WH believes UI is leading to less employment. \u201cThat\u2019s a really difficult thing to analyze\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JStein_WaPo\/status\/1400877014098325504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>WATCH:<\/h2>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: White House press secretary Psaki holds news conference\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhVu9O9PUBQ?start=5182&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Biden had denied a connection between UI benefits and slow employment growth earlier in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there\u2019s been a lot of discussion since Friday\u2019s report that people are being paid to stay home rather than go to work,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/joe-biden-confronts-accusation-unemployment-benefits-keeping-america-unemployed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said at the time<\/a>. \u201cWell, we don\u2019t see much evidence of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs my dad used to say, \u2018A job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It\u2019s about your dignity, your place in the community, being able to look your kid in the eye and say, \u2018everything is going to be okay,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the people who claim Americans won\u2019t work, even if they find a good and fair opportunity, underestimate the American people. So we will insist that the law is followed with respect to benefits but we are not going to turn our backs on our fellow Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary declined to say whether the Biden administration\u2019s additional unemployment benefits are slowing down the return of the workforce Friday, saying it is \u201ca really difficult thing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279244,"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\/joe-biden-1-scaled-e1622233269944.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Dodges On Whether Unemployment Benefits Are Slowing COVID Recovery","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552748","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\/joe-biden-1-scaled-e1622233269944.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Dodges On Whether Unemployment Benefits Are Slowing COVID Recovery","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552748","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=552748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}