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I don't know why you're downvoted, but unemployment is a state-level program. This is a national problem and merits a federal response.
by throwanem 7y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted, but unemployment is a state-level program. This is a national problem and merits a federal response.
- throwaway5752 7y agoYes, and this begs the question of what will happen with state budgets, many of which have balanced budget amendments and have no legal flexibility to deal with this. The answer is federal block grants to backstop national unemployment changes. Removing waiting periods and extending benefits indefinitely is essentially temporary UBI, which is what we need. So yes, this form of changes to unemployment would _require_ a federal response. And we require far more federal response than that, far far more. But payroll tax holidays and $1000/adult responses are not serious policy and waste invaluable time.