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The arrival of COVID-19 in the U.S. at end of March led to one of the sharpest economic downturns in U.S. history. The unemployment rate peaked in April at 14.7 percent. This caused immediate and unprecedented financial ramifications for the millions of Americans who were suddenly unemployed—particularly low-income Americans. While there has been an uptick in the economy—10.6 million jobs were added between May and August, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent—many low-income Americans remain on the edges of the economic recovery.

Super safety net, benefits net if you will, so now you have got tax subsidized health insurance joining with disability insurance, which, by the way, enrollment in that has disubled since 19956789 it's become a sort of permanent welfare. you have got that and you have got food stamps so. these there are these incentives not to work. and what i keep saying over and over again, the problem with that is it confines people to poverty, jobs are what get people out of poverty. jobs are what get people on a mobility track to better incomes and jobs are what help reduce inequality. >> ed, am i right i...

Net if you will, so now you have got tax subsidized health insurance joining with disability insurance, which, by the way, enrollment in that has disubled since 19956789 it's become a sort of permanent welfare. you have got that and you have got food stamps so. these there are these incentives not to work. and what i keep saying over and over again, the problem with that is it confines people to poverty, jobs are what get people out of poverty. jobs are what get people on a mobility track to better incomes and jobs are what help reduce inequality. >> ed, am i right in describing it that is tha...