Why we still need the $600 unemployment benefit
Channel: Economic Policy Institute
Date: 24/07/2020

Today, more than one in five workers are receiving unemployment insurance or have applied and are waiting for it. They rely on the crucial $600/week benefit increase instituted by the last coronavirus relief bill. Now the White House and many Republican policymakers want to let it expire—but that would be a huge mistake. Here's why.

Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy at the Economic Policy Institute, explains why the U.S. needs to keep its $600 pandemic unemployment benefit.

Why we still need the $600 unemployment benefit 
https://www.epi.org/blog/why-we-still-need-the-600-unemployment-benefit/