{"id":12162,"date":"2021-06-16T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=12162"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:40:51","slug":"thousands-of-floridians-are-making-their-voices-heard-and-speaking-out-against-governor-desantis-decision-to-end-federal-unemployment-benefits-at-the-end-of-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/thousands-of-floridians-are-making-their-voices-heard-and-speaking-out-against-governor-desantis-decision-to-end-federal-unemployment-benefits-at-the-end-of-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Floridians are making their voices heard and speaking out against Governor DeSantis&#8217; decision to end federal unemployment benefits at the end of this month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20200320-134347-petition-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12163\" width=\"252\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20200320-134347-petition-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20200320-134347-petition-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20200320-134347-petition-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20200320-134347-petition.jpg 1499w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only is ending federal enhanced unemployment benefits pointless, but it will also damage Florida&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ending these benefits will needlessly pull hundreds of millions in stimulus dollars out of our local economies, to the tune of $700 million dollars in economic impact. Ron&#8217;s reasoning for the move is dubious at best. He seems to think that ending these benefits will force more Floridians into the workplace, despite evidence saying otherwise.<br><br>Florida&#8217;s Unemployment System has failed out of work Floridians throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and even in the best of times, we&#8217;re home to some of the worst benefits in the nation. For many unemployed Floridians, state benefits have already run out, and the federal benefits have been a lifeline. DeSantis seems more concerned about playing politics than the livelihood of Florida&#8217;s families. Across the state, union members and concerned citizens are pushing back against the Governor&#8217;s reckless decision to end enhanced unemployment benefits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will you join them?\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net\/ss\/c\/P8Elou2Rvc0qoMPEUZrMXcOpy_XqN4R2ZGjoK-5zZnkd9OMAk9omA_9FkVRYGSEhMQGMhOewDniL-oXHpxYDyeLa_z9MpxWzKD6v1gxnfrZt5-7fwd4NSC7KoMs0o29f2rEyxdvgn62q75JF3rH6yjhOMTglFuSDycjVZAubfq4\/3ct\/p2k5jRv3TXWXPwAAg533gg\/h2\/QNyZAb9zssF3MO4ot8WBvq2qIw2FHE4aFRMTpYKbi-Y\" target=\"_blank\">Sign and share the petition to Ron today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is ending federal enhanced unemployment benefits pointless, but it will also damage Florida&#8217;s economy. Ending these benefits will needlessly pull hundreds of millions in stimulus dollars out of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[564],"class_list":["post-12162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-unemployment-benefits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}