Opinion | Americans Don't Want to Return to Lousy Low Wage Jobs - The New York Times - 0 views
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When Congress passed the CARES Act last May and the American Rescue Plan Act this March, it was hard, even impossible, for policymakers to forecast the demand for labor or the pace of the economic recovery. The pandemic was still stubbornly lurking. The economic (and humanitarian) risk of doing too little far exceeded the risk of being generous
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the entire point of the enhanced unemployment checks, at least originally, was to tide Americans over until it was safe for more people to work again.
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Republican-controlled states, as well as some more politically mixed states, are doing this because they presume there is a macroeconomic upside to millions of workers returning to lower-income jobs. They shouldn’t be so sure.
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