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by dubrocks 1432 days ago
People were also getting $10K, $20K, $60K in unemployment.
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Well yeah, when 25% of households have a wage earner who lost their job due to COVID that will send a much larger hit to the economy than those unemployment payments ever could. Even then they merely helped people float along.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/09/24/economi...