We are all familiar with the right-wing claiming that lazy workers won't go back to those terrible, low-paying jobs because have been living large on $300 a week of UI. So obviously that needs to be cut off and the workers starved back to their jobs. Because that's how a perfect system is supposed to work with employers demonstrating utter contempt for employees.
[And don't forget that capitalism is the best thing evah]

Um, get a job?

There are millions of vacancies, and small businesses across the Nation are desperate for workers. https://t.co/0ejI45Ja6I

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 7, 2021

Republican governors were so committed to this idea, that they turned down free money and cut off extended UI weeks early. This caused those lazy workers to rush back to this shitty jobs and caused the economy in 26 red states to boom, right?

Twenty-six state governors — all Republican, except one — opted out of the pandemic-era programs several weeks before their official expiration on Labor Day. Enhanced benefits were keeping the unemployed from looking for jobs and fueling a labor shortage, they claimed.
...The data suggests unemployment benefits aren’t playing a big role in hiring challenges and that other factors are having a larger impact — a similar thrust to other recent research analyzing the policy decisions.

States that ended federal benefits early saw larger job gains among the unemployed: Their employment jumped 4.4 percentage points relative to jobless individuals in states that kept benefits flowing, according to the paper, which analyzes data through the first week of August.

However, that translates to just 1 in 8 unemployed individuals in the “cutoff states” who found a job in that time period. The majority, 7 out of 8, didn’t find a new job.

“Yes, there was an uptick [in employment],” University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor Arindrajit Dube said. “Most people lost benefits and weren’t able to find jobs.”

The employment dynamic — a loss of benefits without resulting job income for most people — led households to cut their weekly spending by 20%, according to the paper. As a result, economies of the cutoff states saw a reduction of nearly $2 billion in consumer spending from June through the first week of August.

“They turned down federal transfers and that money didn’t come back into the state [from new job income],” University of Toronto assistant professor Michael Stepner said. He also co-authored the paper.

A 20% spending cut amounts to a big reduction in quality of life for these households, which are largely lower-income, Stepner said.

I have three take-aways from this:
1) those numbers about endless job openings are bullsh*t. That shouldn't surprise too many people.
2) the right-wing capitalist class doesn't give two sh*ts about working class people. Even despite these results, they are still pushing the lazy workers meme.
3) right-wing Republicans are married to this disdain for the working class. Remember that they fought tooth-and-nail against free federal money to expand Medicaid.

The failure of red states’ recent experiment in cutting off benefits to spur job growth has not prompted self-reflection or reassessment. Instead business leaders and their allies in the Republican Party and the media sound as confident as ever that the best policy is to make any further time without a job unlivable for individuals. Their assertions drip with contempt for people on welfare, whose selfishness and poor work ethic is responsible for underwhelming economic recovery.
...“I have a friend in the military who trains military dogs, and they only feed a military dog at night, because a hungry dog is an obedient dog,” he said. “If we’re not causing people to be hungry to work, then we’re providing them with all the meals they need sitting at home.”

I can't believe how some people claim that Republicans are better for the working class than Democrats. The Dems are terrible for workers, but that doesn't mean the Republicans aren't still worse.