More states are ending jobless benefit, but will workers return?

July 13, 2021

“When there’s a quick ramping up of the (economy), there’s a quick demand for workers and that means the people who pay more are going to get those workers … just as when there’s a labor surplus they’re able to pay less and still get a competent workforce,’’ says Carl Van Horn, founding director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

USA Today, July 12, 2021

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