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Low-income people need the $600 jobless benefit: Expert

August 6, 2020

CNBC’s Kelly Evans discusses whether Congress should extend the additional $600 in unemployment benefits the federal government provided people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic with Barry Knapp of Ironsides Macroeconomics and Bill Rodgers of Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University.

CNBC, August 4, 2020

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