Andy Puzder -\-\ the former CEO of the fast-food giant CKE which owns Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, who Trump nominated to be his first secretary of labor (until the nomination caused a firestorm of opposition even by Trumpian standards) -\-\ doesn't want to extend $600 weekly unemployment benefits beyond the end of July. Puzder claims in a Washington Post op-ed that these benefits -\-\ the equivalent of $15 an hour for a 40-hour workweek -\-\ are discouraging the unemployed from returning to work. He provides no empirical support for this except to say that a “government check” makes for “a...
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