DeLaney: ‘Holcomb wants people to settle for inadequate jobs’

INDIANAPOLIS – State Representative Ed DeLaney (D-Indianapolis) today released the following statement just before the State of Indiana pulls out of federal unemployment programs on June 19:

“Governor Holcomb has followed other Republican governors in ending enhanced unemployment benefits. Indiana has a history of low paying often unsatisfactory jobs that has made many Hoosiers reevaluate their career priorities. This is especially so amid the health and economic effects of a global pandemic. The governor is cutting short the opportunity to make a long-term job decision. Job hunting should be based upon aspiration, not desperation. The GOP's thumb on the scale is pushing people towards lower wage and less satisfactory jobs. Our state should instead be fighting for improved wages and benefits and jobs worthy of hard-working Hoosiers.

“The unemployment system should be used to improve workers' options, not to make them settle for an inadequate job.”