The argument that unemployment benefits keep Americans from going back to work isn't just misleading — it's dangerous in a time when we need more support than ever

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• Annie Fadely is the senior policy and programs associate at Civic Ventures, a public policy incubator based out of Seattle, and a producer of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. 
• In the latest episode of Pitchfork Economics, professor Trevon Logan says that the CARES Act was created with the belief that a robust pandemic response would make the situation better by mid-summer — but that response never appeared.
• Logan says that, right now, we've only done the bare minimum to alleviate both the public health and economic crises.
• Instead, we should be using all of our resources to address these problems head on.
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As we approach the end of the summer and what neoliberal economists promised for months would be a tremendous V-shaped economic recovery from COVID-19, it's all too obvious that our "recovery" is plateauing. America's original economic response was predicated on finally mounting a robust pandemic response that would alleviate the public health crisis by mid-summer.

That response did not materialize, and the extreme economic dislocation of April, May, and June has not snapped back into place — and now we're headed toward a double dip recession.  

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