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John Oliver: US unemployment chaos is ‘the result of deliberate choices’ – The Guardian
The Last Week Tonight host scrutinizes state-led programs in which as few as one in 10 out of work receive benefits
John Oliver trained his focus on the dysfunctional, maddening unemployment system on Sundays Last Week Tonight, nearly a year into a pandemic recession which has left millions of Americans without jobs or a functional safety net. The pandemic exposed widespread failures in Americas diffuse, patchwork unemployment system: dysfunctional websites, hours of on-hold phone calls and even physical lines for unemployment benefits that, for many, arrived too late.
Economists generally agree that unemployment…
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