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The labor market's perceived weakness has led to calls for anotherextension of temporary unemployment insurance benefits, but thiswould increase spending by roughly $1 billion per month and isunnecessary given the demonstrated strengthening of the labormarket. Any extension of jobless claims generates exactly the wrongincentives and increases the average duration of unemployment forthose who qualify.
The overarching theme of these episodes is the luck and privilege I’ve enjoyed and my country has enjoyed and the implications for my and my country’s responsibilities to the rest of the world. I was lucky to be born in America White and well-off; was lucky again as a baby boomer to enjoy the reproductive rights every female in the world should have; and was lucky to benefit from the “exorbitant” privilege of a top appointment at the Inter-American Development Bank.