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Elizabeth Pancotti
ENPancotti
$580B in unemployment insurance benefits, expansions, & supplements saved tens of millions of jobless workers last year. Swaths of beneficiaries are about to be on the hook for huge surprise
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Philip Rocco
PhilipRocco
Congress doesn’t offer us certainty about much but if it doesn’t provide revenue support for state and local governments, it’s guaranteeing massive unemployment in a sector that represents about 13%
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David Sligar
DavidSligar
good to see my former treasury team mate steven hamilton second the wsw's recommendation for unemployment insurance.in my scheme i made it a bit more clear than it was a
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Tom Bridges
bridges_tom
What now for cities and towns in 2021? I have been reflecting on how 2020 has impacted urban areas in the UK, and I suggest ten things for cities, towns
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Elizabeth Pancotti
ENPancotti
A lot of the attention this morning is on initial claims still being stubbornly high, but I want to talk through something else this morning. A, if you will. Here's
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Heidi Shierholz
hshierholz
Another more than 1.0 million people applied for UI last week, including 709,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 298,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). PUA
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Heidi Shierholz
hshierholz
Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 16th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the *worst* week of the
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Kathryn Anne Edwards
keds_economist
Great article in the Monthly Labor Review about employment this recession. I'm going to walk through some highlights, starting with this excellent figure that shows the depth of each post-war
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Paul Krugman
paulkrugman
McConnell totally misunderstands the problem; thinks this is about stimulus, not support as the virus rages. So no deal on unemployment benefits any time soon, with extra benefits going away
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animal spirits
proleasfuck
A thread on my opinions on Keynesian economics, Marxism, the depression, and the future of capitalism, after some study and investigation. It’s a mistake to think any one economic crisis,
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Antonio Fatas
AntonioFatas
The idea that the US economy can reach full employment in a short period of time and generate inflation runs contrary to what we have seen in any previous cycle.
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Tiffany Green
Tiffany_L_Green
Putting aside that the first phrase of this tweet is absolutely incorrect, it underscores my frustration with the ways in which mainstream economics (and economists with the biggest platforms) ignores
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Justin Wolfers
JustinWolfers
Payrolls rose +1.8 million, and the unemployment rate is down from 11.1% to 10.2%.The economy is still in a massive hole, but we're crawling back out. The problem is that
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Eliza Forsythe
ElizaForsythe
For the last 6 months or more, I have been obsessed with this basic measurement problem: how many individuals who lost employment during the pandemic received UI benefits? Here is
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Christopher Mims
mims
The initial shutdown was bad enough. But what’s coming next, the economic devastation to America’s small and medium size businesses happening between now and when we get a vaccine, is
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first-mate prance
bocxtop
the person to blame for you working an $11/hr job during a pandemic with no hazard pay isn’t the mother of three getting $600 of unemployment a week, it’s the
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