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Are Expanded Unemployment Benefits Keeping People From Returning To Work?
May 20, 2021·15m
Twenty-two Republican led states are planning to roll back expanded unemployment benefits, because they say the benefits are keeping people from returning to work. Progressives argue employers need to do a better job of incentivizing workers to return. We look at what's really going on. This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, and chief economic correspondent Scott Horsley. Connect: Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.