Davis says he received a letter back from his building's owners, Braden Fellman Group LTD, who informed him that he had one day to pay his rent in full, along with a late fee, before the company moved forward with evicting him.
"I'm still arguing with them about a payment arrangement," Davis told CNN Business on Sunday. "They really are going to have to come around and do a reality check with what's going on in our society."
On Monday, Braden Fellman co-owner Andrew Braden told CNN Business the letter Davis received was just an automated warning sent to renters who haven't paid rent within a four-day grace period. Braden agreed to speak with Davis over the phone to clear up the matter.
Loeffler, recently told Fox Business Network that she believes the supplemental unemployment payments from the federal government discourage out-of-work employees from returning to their jobs, where they risk catching coronavirus.
Under the CARES Act, more than
two-thirds of laid-off employees were
being paid more per week to stay home and collect unemployment than they would earn by returning to work, according to a
University of Chicago analysis.
"I've talked to many employers across Georgia that are having a hard time bringing back folks to work," Loeffler told Fox Business last month. "We need to remove that incentive not to be at work. ... I'm not seeing a big need to extend the federal unemployment insurance."
Loeffler's office on Monday said she needed more time to respond to a request for comment about the soup kitchen being set up outside her office Tuesday.
UNITE HERE President D. Taylor
and others have pointed out that Congress approved at least
$23 billion in coronavirus relief grants to major airlines and about
$500 billion in corporate loans via the CARES Act in March.
"I find it the height of hypocrisy that these same senators are willing to give billions to companies, but a poor worker getting $600 is too much," Taylor told CNN Business on Sunday.
The ripple effects from declining to extend unemployment may cost Americans more in the long run.
Taylor says 98% of his union's members were laid off or furloughed back in March, when coronavirus-related government mandates grounded thousands of flights and crippled the US travel industry, which generates $5.7 trillion in revenue -- affecting an estimated
319 million jobs. Airports like Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport are also economic anchors for their communities that generate
billions in revenue every year.
Taylor estimates that at least 80% of his members, most of whom are people of color, are still out of work. The majority of them have relied on the $600 weekly unemployment checks they received through the CARES Act for income.
Most of those workers will not receive CARES Act payments this week. If Congress declines to extend those payments in full via the HEROES Act, Taylor says the nation's problems with the pandemic, growing food lines, and social unrest will become exponentially worse. The ramifications of President Trump's Saturday
executive order extending benefits in lieu of Congress passing the HEROES Act are
still unclear.
"You'll have an incredible increase in homelessness," Taylor told CNN Business. "You'll have people overrunning public hospitals because they don't have health insurance, which means the taxpayers will be paying for it. I think we'll have a situation of dire poverty in large segments of the community that will affect the schools. I don't know how [HEROES Act opponents] think that won't affect their schools, their hospitals, their lives."
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