The maximum payment for a formerly middle-class wage earner is about $12.00 per hour. This is not enough to prevent an eventual slide into homelessness, and is certainly not an incentive to remain unemployed. At best it may delay ruin long enough for a real job to appear.
Ending these payments will not cause the unemployed to find jobs - there are no jobs. More specifically there are at least 5-6 qualified and unemployed applicants for every opening. That's a lot of people to throw into the dumpster.
Nor should one be overly impressed by the postings on the job boards or other classified advertising. There is much less there than you think. A majority of advertised job openings are duplications or completely fictitious (e.g the “employer” does not hire anyone within 6 months of the posting).
Yes - “unemployment benefits” should be extended time and time again. (No, they should not be increased)
By the time the state unemployment funds have become completely insolvent we will have much bigger problems to deal with than unemployment.
Yes - that is probably coming within the next twelve months.
“employment benefits should be extended time and time again”.
Why exactly? I’m sure students have a good reason why they should pay a fraction of their loans. I’m sure delinquent mortagee’s have a good reason why their payments should be deferred/reduced. I know the banks have lots of good reasons why the should benefit from a miriad of programs. What does this accomplish? How many jobs does this create? None. It delays the inevitable.