Ocasio-Cortez, Bush Lead Bid for Expanded Unemployment Aid.

OCASIO-Cortez, Alexandria, 1989-; UNEMPLOYMENT; DEMOCRATS (United States); UNEMPLOYMENT insurance; COVID-19 pandemic; BUSH family; POLITICAL party leadership

(Bloomberg) -- Progressive Representatives Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are leading a group of House Democrats in pressuring party leadership to include an expansion of unemployment aid in the $3.5 trillion tax and spending package being drawn up in Congress. In addition to Bush and Ocasio-Cortez, the lawmakers who signed on the letter include Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Jamie Raskin, Mondaire Jones and Ilhan Omar. "We are very concerned that without federal reform our unemployment insurance system will become even weaker as states seek further program reductions to offset the additional UI expenditures required during the pandemic and subsequent recession", the lawmakers wrote. [Extracted from the article]

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