A year ago, pandemic unemployment insurance was allowed to expire in some states. A University of Massachusetts economist found there was no increase in employment in the states that cut off Pandemic Unemployment Insurance. The business makes the decision about hiring not the workers,. That's the business they decide. It's all this talk about labor shortage. People don't look at people.
In this Live Interview from 7/8/22, we break down US media's inflation discourse that places the blame for rising food and gas prices squarely on the shoulders of greedy Burger King cashiers living high on the government hog. With J.W. Mason, Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.