Enhanced unemployment benefits of $600 a week will likely end after July due to Republican opposition. Here's why lawmakers are against extending the payments.
The problem, in critics' eyes, is that many people can theoretically make more money from unemployment than from working. That's true especially for lower-wage workers.
That dynamic offers a disincentive to return to work and could dampen the economic rebound, oppenents contend.U.S. Treasury Secretary
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