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Jason Furman (PIIE) and Wilson Powell III (Harvard Kennedy School)

With the US economy still 10 million jobs short of its pre-pandemic trend and an unusually high number of unemployed workers, the most important solution is time for job matches, the extent of the virus to improve, and expanded unemployment benefits to expire or be replaced by more modest increases.

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