A new report says what many business groups in Wisconsin have been saying for months, extra unemployment benefits from Washington, D.C. kept some workers at home.
The Badger Institute released a new report yesterday which says states that ended the enhanced unemployment benefits before July saw their unemployment rates fall faster than states, like Wisconsin, which kept the benefits flowing until September. The difference is not huge, the Badger Institute says it’s a difference of just a few tenths-of-a-percentage point, but researchers say it’s a significant difference.
The report says many workers were able to make nearly as much, or more while on unemployment than they made while working.
