✅Raise wages by $320/week for millions
✅Increase economic growth
✅Create half a million jobs
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Even if Congress extends UI, current rules say those people will lose UI if they're offered a job with comparable pay to their last one.
As employers pick up hiring, millions could experience painful income cuts as they return to work.
Our economic recovery will be at war with itself: Economic expansion and hiring will produce income losses and contraction.
-People only lose UI if they're offered a job that pays them comparably to their current benefit amount
-Employers get a credit covering the wage difference between a currently unemployed worker's former wage and their new one
nytimes.com/2020/07/22/sun…