Eliminating extra unemployment benefits won't solve worker shortages, study finds
The extra pandemic-era unemployment benefits largely don’t keep workers from accepting new jobs, according to a new paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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The extra pandemic-era unemployment benefits largely don’t keep workers from accepting new jobs, according to a new paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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Obamacare works is they give you a subsidy for an insurance plan. as you make more money, they take away more and more of the subsidy. this creates effectively a tax with people on low and moderate incomes. as they earn more money, they lose part of the subsidy. it adds on 5%, 10%, 15% to their tax rate. some people will work less. that's not a desirable economic effect. tweak the program to have less of that effect. any kinds of means tested entitlement plan -- >> any means testing in entitlement program, in a welfare program will have this incentive effect at the margins. it's a reason peopl...
The economy. on the other hand, part of this effect is because the way obamacare works is they give you a subsidy for an insurance plan. as you make more money, they take away more and more of the subsidy. this creates effectively a tax with people on low and moderate incomes. as they earn more money, they lose part of the subsidy. it adds on 5%, 10%, 15% to their tax rate. some people will work less. that's not a desirable economic effect. tweak the program to have less of that effect. any kinds of means tested entitlement plan -- >> any means testing in entitlement program, in a welfare prog...
Obamacare works is they give you a subsidy for an insurance plan. as you make more money, they take away more and more of the subsidy. this creates effectively a tax with people on low and moderate incomes. as they earn more money, they lose part of the subsidy. it adds on 5%, 10%, 15% to their tax rate. some people will work less. that's not a desirable economic effe effect. tweak the program to have less of that effect. any kinds of means tested entitlement plan -- >> any means testing in spitelement program, in a welfare program will have this incentive effect at the margins. it's a reason ...