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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 Unemployment Insurance Work During the Great Recession?

White workers have an average maximum unemployment benefit of 463 dollars, and black workers have 423 dollars. That's over a thousand dollars over 26 weeks of benefits. And those those outcomes still persist. To learn more about that, we're going to talk to amy goldstein, who's a p surprise in reporter at the washington post.

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