Why Ending Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Is Terrible for the Economy
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In the latest episode, they spoke with Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute. Shierholz says if businesses and politicians want more people to go back to work, they need to raise wages. According to Google Trends, searches including the words "labor shortage" have skyrocketed in the United States over the past month. The term first began to spread on social media in Apr...