re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg

Mississippi: We’re backwards for life down here.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLOX) - The same day one of Mississippi’s top elected officials recommended the action. Gov. Tate Reeves announced Mississippi would opt out of additional federal unemployment benefits.

Reeves has also asked the Department of Employment Security to prioritize pre-pandemic enforcement of eligibility requirements under state law.

Mississippi’s Speaker of the House published a letter asking the governor to take steps to get people off unemployment and back to work.

The benefits will end 6/12. Two months earlier than Federal law allows for.

Alabama just did the same.