Wall Street Journal: “Many Republicans say enhanced and extended unemployment benefits are discouraging Americans from seeking work, especially in low-wage jobs where the aid often pays more than they earned at previous jobs. The Biden administration and Democrats say other factors, including lack of access to child care and shortages of computer chips, are holding back more robust job growth.”
Said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo: “There’s nothing in the data which would suggest that that’s the reason people are out of work… The No. 1 reason now that people aren’t going back to work is…fear.”
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