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Unemployment Benefits
August 26, 2021
Esther Wang
Ending Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Is a Cruel Form of Pandemic Amnesia
Stopping Covid-19 aid programs early ignores what has worked to keep people safe, housed, and freed from debt as a global health crisis rages on.
August 20, 2021
Bryce Covert
The End of “the End of Welfare As We Know It”
We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.
August 17, 2020
Libby Watson
Democrats Are So Worried About the Postal Service That They Might Finally Do Something
Too bad they don’t see similar urgency in the millions of unemployed Americans who face another week without $600 in assistance.
July 7, 2014
Danny Vinik
Conservatives Say Cutting Unemployment Benefits Boosted the Jobs Numbers. This Chart Says Otherwise.
June 4, 2014
Danny Vinik
Republicans Are Making the Long-Term Unemployed as Desperate as Possible
May 6, 2014
Danny Vinik
Eric Cantor: I'm Fine With Deficit-Raising Tax Cuts, But Not Unemployment Insurance
April 10, 2014
Danny Vinik
Conservatives' Bogus New 'Proof' that Jobless Benefits Hurt the Economy
March 13, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Senate Has a Deal on Unemployment Benefits. Here's What You Need to Know.
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