Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty declined last year (with Amy Goldstein and Elliott Morris)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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Can Cutting Off Unemployment Benefits Increase Working?
In states that inded their unemployment benefits early, the increase in this difficulty meeting expenses was about four points. That would implicate the policy choice by republicans and conservatives a little further. But it's worth mentioning that this 278 dollars, if you extraplate it, is only about two billion dollars decrease between june and early august in aggregate consumer spending. Whereis aggregate national consumer spinning? You know, like a thousandth of that.
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