The decision by Gov. Tony Evers to maintain the federal unemployment bonus until September 2021 kept some 28,000 Wisconsinites out of a workforce that desperately needed them. 

Economist Ike Brannon joins Free Exchange to discuss the findings of his latest report, Unemployment (Over) Compensation.

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