Unemployment Boost Could be Extended
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We ran the numbers: There are 1311 news articles covering this topic. 43% (560) are left leaning, 39% (516) center, 18% (235) right leaning.
Congressional Republicans and the White House are considering a short-term extension of the federal boost to state unemployment insurance. While left-leaning articles highlight that maintaining extra unemployment payments would help millions of workers, right-leaning articles highlight that giving more unemployment benefits will incentivize people to stay at home.
A left-leaning article by The Los Angeles Times highlights that maintaining extra unemployment payments at or near present levels would help millions of workers, given that the pandemic is getting worse in many parts of the country and local officials are moving to restore lockdown rules. The article notes that many economists worry that if Congress makes a sharp cutback in the special unemployment benefits it will take billions of dollars out of the economy at the wrong time.
Newsweek published a centrist article reporting that what remains to be determined is how long the extension would last and at what amount. The entire process is expected to last for the next several weeks past when enhanced unemployment benefits will lapse.
Fox News published a right-leaning article featuring an interview with former Trump senior economic adviser Steve Moore on the debate overextending unemployment insurance. Moore said that giving more unemployment benefits will incentivize people to stay at home and not go back to work.
From the left
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