//How the Latest Republican Stimulus Would Hammer Jobless Restaurant Workers

How the Latest Republican Stimulus Would Hammer Jobless Restaurant Workers

As resurgent COVID-19 infections prompt states to slow down or reverse restaurant openings, putting scores of workers at risk for layoffs, the enhanced unemployment payouts that millions rely on have effectively expired. That’s bad, as the development will guarantee an interruption in vital aid for some of the most vulnerable Americans. But Republicans, alas, are here to make things worse: GOP senators issued a plan on Monday to replace the weekly $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation checks with a benefit