New Study Finds Expanded Jobless Benefits Don't Reduce Employment

[irisblue]

For all those RW ers who are saying that $600 discourages people from seeking work.
Same Yale Study 2 source https://news.yale.edu/2020/07/27/yale-study-finds-expanded-jobless-benefits-did-not-reduce-employment

snip--"The findings suggest that, in the aggregate, the expanded benefits neither encouraged layoffs during the pandemic’s onset nor deterred people from returning to work once businesses began reopening. "



Interview from NPR afternoon show All Things Considered with the lead author

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897836643/new-study-finds-expanded-jobless-benefits-dont-reduce-employment

4 min article, no transcript yet

[HotTeaBag]

1. There have been quite a few studies looking into it and all have come to the same conclusion.

I just don't understand why Republicans are using this one verifiably false assertion over and over again to justify not helping Americans.

They have to know that the $600 has gone a long way toward keeping the economy afloat.

Every time I hear Cruz and friends say they've talked to small business owners who say they can't get their employees back because of the enhanced UI, I know that they haven't talked to small business owners. If they had, they would have heard something like "without the additional money being put into people's bank accounts they'll have less to spend and I will have fewer and fewer customers and with fewer and fewer customers I will probably be permanently closed in about a month".

Such a dumb argument they've settled on.