1/ Rule of the day: before you claim that the supplemental $600/week #UnemploymentInsurance payment authorized by the #CARESAct made people reject job offers in favor of staying at home, please learn how state systems actually work. #ExtendUI
2/ In most states, including North Carolina, a UI claimant who is recalled to work & refuses to go back typically is disqualified from ANY further benefits. There are some good cause exceptions tied to #COVID19 , but they are narrow & require the claimant to make a case.
3/ And a claimant who refuses an offer of "suitable work" also typically is disqualified for any further benefits. Suitable work is based (partly) on the person's prior earnings. Again, there may be some COVID-related exceptions. des.nc.gov/need-help/covi…
4/ Also, more and more research contradicts the incentive argument. Nationally, research by @ernietedeschi & others found that about 70% of the #unemploymentinsurance beneficiaries who returned to work in June were receiving insurance benefits that exceeded their prior wages. 
5/ Similarly, a new study by researchers at Yale University found that recipients of more generous #UnemploymentInsurance benefits were no less likely than others to return to work. #ExtendUI news.yale.edu/2020/07/27/yal…
6/ And all of the arguments that assume that workers are choosing to sit at home as the result of the kinds of rational, dispassionate reasoning assumed in ECON 101 (and that few real humans engage in) completely ignore the fact that the US is in the midst of a global pandemic!
7/ To reiterate, this is not a "normal" recession. It is the result of deliberate choices to "freeze" the economy to protect public health. The goal of #UnemploymentInsurance currently is to help people pay their bills until a broad economic re-opening is possible. #NCeconomy
8/ Until then, all ending the supplemental benefits will do is exacerbate hardships. New @uscensusbureau data found that 43% of all adults in North Carolina live in a household that has experienced a loss of income since March. Another 30% anticipate losing income. #NCeconomy
9/ The same survey also found that 25% of adults in North Carolina either missed last month's rent/mortgage payment or lack confidence in making next month's rent/mortgage payment. #NCeconomy
10/10 But I guess when reality clashes with ideology, many people would rather reject reality in favor of a magical, ideologically pure world unlike the messy one we actually live in.
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