Was a Labor Day bitter this year for millions of American workers. The Stars and Stripes Labor Day, which is celebrated every year on the first Monday of September, was marked by the closing of the support programs at the unemployment initiated to counter the effects of pandemic. The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (Peuc), which extended the receipt of regular unemployment benefits to those who were entitled to them up to 53 weeks, and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (Pua), which also extended subsidies to workers autonomous, independent, freelance e part-time were suspended by the federal administration, closing the taps a over 9 million people, affecting 35 million Americans, the 10% of the population. The declared objective of the administration is to incentivize the work but, despite the announcements of the excellent results in the labor market obtained in recent months, the California has initiated a new aid program and scholars and analysts show that the cut of subsidies be in fact irrelevant in employment growth, causing instead the vertical collapse of the consumption.
While unemployment benefits have just been stopped for the pandemic emergency, the White House announced major progress in job creation. According to the latest data released by Washington, the average claims for access to unemployment benefits are collapsed by 60% since the arrival of the new president and have reached their lowest level in the last 18 months. “Along with seven consecutive positive job reports they’ve almost seen 4.5 million from new jobs since the beginning of my administration, this decline in unemployment access claims is further proof of one economic recovery lasting “, declared the American president, Joe Biden, which underlined the primates achieved by his administration. “After anemic growth of only 60,000 jobs per month in the three months leading up to my first full month in office, we have now created 750 thousand jobs per month in the past three months – and we’ve nearly doubled the previous record of new jobs achieved by any other first-year president in their first seven months in office. “