Notable quote: > In states that cut off the $300 check, the workforce — the number of people who either have a job or are looking for one — has risen no more t

Notable quote: > In states that cut off the $300 check, the workforce — the number of people who either have a job or are looking for one — has risen no more than it has in the states that maintained the payment. That federal aid, along with two jobless aid programs that served gig workers and the long-term unemployed, ended nationally Sept. 6. Yet America’s overall workforce actually shrank that month.