Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty declined last year (with Amy Goldstein and Elliott Morris)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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How Did Pandemic Unemployment End?
The most federal unemployment benefits ended on september sixth, when the federal dead lines for pandemic unemployment insurance ended. Some states rolled back these benefits early, as early as juneand there were 25 of these states that ended early. Most of them were governed by republicans and all except one had a republican governor. There was absolutely no difference in self reported working measured by the census bureau, in those states that cut off their benefits early. The theory's backfire. But what we did find, again, as measured by the Census burea, states that ended their unemployment benefits early saw an increase in the share of families who said they were having difficulty meeting typical expenses in their
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