没有了失业救济金,这些家庭就买不起美国人种植,生产和销售的生活必需品。
Without unemployment benefits, families can't spend on basic necessities that are grown, made, and sold by other Americans.
一个更有效、更人道的方法就是给救济金设定一个限制,英国失业补助和求职者津贴都设置了这一限制,那就是接受救助的人必须为自己找份工作。
A more effective and humane welfare stick is to make benefits conditional. That already happens with Britain's unemployment benefit, Jobseeker's Allowance. Recipients are obliged to seek work.
由于去年的工资减税和增加失业救济金政策截止日期将至,财政政策对GDP增长的影响,此前预计已达1.4个百分点。
Fiscal policy was already on course to knock 1.4 points off growth, as last year's payroll-tax cut and extension to unemployment benefits reach their expiry date.
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