The article mentions that the unemployment benefits don't fully account for it: > In the early part of the pandemic the UI supplement was even more generous, a

The article mentions that the unemployment benefits don't fully account for it: > In the early part of the pandemic the UI supplement was even more generous, at $600, but its expiry in the summer had “little effect on overall employment”, according to a paper published in February by Arindrajit Dube of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Likewise, in the areas where the current $300 is a relatively larger boost to income, employment growth has not weakened since January, when that uplift was introduced.