Casey Mulligan

University of Chicago

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Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and author of The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy; contributor to the New York Times' Economix blog

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The Senate returned from recess today to consider Emergency Unemployment Compensation, a three-month extension to long-term unemployment insurance that lapsed over the holidays for 1.3…

Out of Work and Out of Luck: The Politics of Unemployment

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