What economists fear will happen without more unemployment aid
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What economists fear will happen without more unemployment aid
- August 11, 2020
- Eric Swanson, economics, FiveThirtyEight, Aug. 11, 2020
“The net effect on jobs is hard to say — on the one hand, lower spending implies some job losses, but that should be offset to some extent by more people returning to work and finding new jobs,” said Eric Swanson, a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
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