John Oliver: US unemployment chaos is ‘the result of deliberate choices’ – The Guardian

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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