BONUS - COVID and Extended Unemployment Benefits

<p>As pandemic-related, federal unemployment insurance is set to expire, <strong>Stephanie Desmon</strong> talks to <strong>Mallika Thomas, PhD</strong>, of Brookings Institution about its impacts, what will happen to those who remain unemployed but will no longer be eligible for weekly checks, and how the program was actually designed to keep people at home during the early days of COVID-19 so they’d be less likely to spread the virus.</p>