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Who Got Bailed Out with Eric Levitz

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What Is the Best Thing About Unemployment Insurance?

Senate democrats want to do a hundred % wage replacement, at least for middle income workers and below. They ultimately found that the most expedient way of doing that would be to increase standard weekly unemployment benefits by 600 dollars a week. And i think that will lead to very serious social and economic crises down the road. Though that's not receiving much attention in the media that i can see.

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