Employment growth is currently constrained more by firms' lack of interest in hiring than people’s willingness to work at prevailing wages.

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Reducing supplemental levels of unemployment benefits so that no workers receive more than a 100% replacement rate would be a more effective way to balance incentives and income support than simply stopping the supplement at the end of this month.

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A well-designed unemployment insurance system would tie federal contributions to states on the basis of each state’s economic and public health conditions.