Bang for Your Buck
"Nothing has a quicker return on the dollar than unemployment insurance. Once you get to 70 or 80 weeks, and instead of earning $1,000 a week you earn $300 a week, you are in pretty rough shape and everything you get goes right back into the economy."

—Ross Eisenbrey
Economic Policy Institute

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