{"id":2009,"date":"2020-08-10T10:37:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandcanyoninstitute.org\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:26:49","slug":"trumps-unemployment-insurance-memo-funds-5-weeks-gov-ducey-needs-to-come-up-with-325-million-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandcanyoninstitute.org\/research\/trumps-unemployment-insurance-memo-funds-5-weeks-gov-ducey-needs-to-come-up-with-325-million-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Unemployment Insurance Memo funds 5 weeks, Gov. Ducey needs to come up with $325 million match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key Findings<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump\u2019s Aug 8 memorandum reallocates $44 billion of CARES Act disaster assistance to a FEMA program to distribute $400 per week enhanced unemployment benefits. That amount would cover five weeks of federal supplements and requires that states pay 25% of the total cost.<\/li>\n<li>Arizona will be required to match $325 million to cover its 25% match (equal to $100 per unemployed person per week) for the estimated 200,000 people receiving state unemployment insurance and the estimated 450,000 people receiving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. Without this match, Arizona\u2019s unemployed workers will get no supplement.<\/li>\n<li>Ducey can use CARES Act COVID Relief Funds to meet the match.<\/li>\n<li>That $325 million in funding from Arizona would leverage $1 billion in federal dollars. The unemployment assistance payments provided through this action would generate $2.2 billion in additional economic activity.<\/li>\n<li>If a Congressional Agreement occurs soon, the memo is likely moot, but COVID Relief Funds could still help fund a permanent improvement in Arizona\u2019s unemployment system, which is among the worst in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Findings President Trump\u2019s Aug 8 memorandum reallocates $44 billion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grandcanyoninstitute.org\/research\/trumps-unemployment-insurance-memo-funds-5-weeks-gov-ducey-needs-to-come-up-with-325-million-match\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump&#039;s Unemployment Insurance Memo funds 5 weeks, Gov. 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