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7.5 million people have been kicked off their unemployment benefits, even though the program has worked on every conceivable level. America!

Jack Mirkinson
Sep 7, 2021
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Here is one thing we know about the unemployment benefits the government has been funding since the pandemic started: they helped lead to historic reductions in poverty and hunger.

Here is another thing we know about the unemployment benefits: ending them brings very few positives and a whole host of negatives:

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