The coming Unemployment Insurance bottleneck

We should let people collect their extra UI as a "hiring bonus" if they get a job early

Mar 26, 2021

∙ Paid

man singing at a protest with a sign reading "MITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY; extend unemployment insurance; save the $600" — (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

An acquaintance recently told me that he’d been offered his bartending job back now that things are opening up again, but he’s actually making more money thanks to bonus Unemployment Insurance. So what he’s going to do is just do some shifts unpaid and collect tips off the books.

This is not how …

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