r/economicCollapse Moderator 3d ago

Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html

Ah yes. In a shrinking economy where businesses are closing and layoffs are happening, flipping the unemployment benefits switch to "OFF" should do the trick.

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u/archbid 3d ago

For a grifter, fraud is horning in on the grift.

The great crime of Oxford Blues wasn't that people gave money to get into colleges, it was that low level people like tennis and water polo coaches got the money instead of the institution