Bipartisan bill would prevent millionaires from taking unemployment checks

Aatube@kbin.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 470 points –
Bipartisan bill would prevent millionaires from taking unemployment checks
foxnews.com

Um, how isn't this a thing already? (Millionaire=people who earn $1M yearly)
Sorry for Fox News, but it's the best source with this headline and it says it's bipartisan so we should probably be good.

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Who cares if they get it? It's peanuts for most people anyways, especially nowadays.

I wouldn't have cared if the distribution of wealth hadn't become so incredibly lopsided. The last thing rich people need is more money.

Plus it adds up:

"IRS data shows thousands of millionaires are gaming this system to receive unemployment insurance," [Utah Republican Rep. John Curtis] said.

A couple hundred dollars per week saved is a couple hundred dollars per week saved.

Something is way better than nothing in most cases.