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Pandemic Unemployment Aid and the Workforce

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

July 30, 2021

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Laura Dresser, a labor economist and associate director of COWS at UW-Madison speaks to research about the relationship between federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic and the workforce.

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