The byden interstructure package is unemployed action's biggest test so far. Wyden and acasio cortez have put forward measures for the final bill that would require states to offer 26 weeks of unemployment benefits. The administration has been sending mixed and sometimes muddled messages. So far, zero states have announced plans to take the white house up on its suggestion they deploy rescue plan funds for that purpose. Some of the jobless lobby's staunchest advocacy partners have entered the government this year.
This week's Cover Story for Bloomberg Businessweek: 'Workers Press for Power in Rare Advance for U.S. Labor Movement'
Read by Bloomberg's Mark Leydorf.
Along with the Great Resignation and #Striketober, jobless Americans are fighting for unemployment reform that could translate into lasting leverage
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