Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus
The Senate GOP's narrative against extending the $600 UI doesn't hold water with economists: "Any expectation that removing unemployment insurance benefits was going to suddenly fill a bunch of jobs was, predictably, misplaced."
"When you have $60 billion less going to families," former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, "that means that there's going to be something close to that less in spending."
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Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus
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