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After the abysmal jobs report last week, and the obvious connection of federally-subsidized, enhanced unemployment benefits helping to depress the labor market, my colleague Nick Arama wrote:
It means that the government is basically paying you more to stay home than you would get if you were working.
Joe Biden said he didn’t see any problem with that and he didn’t think that that was a factor why people weren’t going back to work. Oh, and he also said it was a major factor. I know, it makes no sense, but that’s Joe Biden.