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Here’s your unemployment update for Friday, January 29th, 2021 Stimulus check update.

A new study shows that states that have restrictions or roadblocks for people to claim unemployment benefits typically have a higher poverty rate than those states that make it easier for citizens to claim these funds.

According to Notre Dame economist Jim Sullivan, “the rise in poverty is much more pronounced for the states for which unemployment insurance take-up is low. We saw a rise in the last six months of 3.5 percentage points.”

Our friend Michelle Evermore, from the National Employment Law Project, explained: “adding hurdles to get benefits, increasing the number of work searches that people have to make, monetary eligibility requirements — so people with tipped income, people working sporadically, generally get left off.”

I completely agree and hope that states with strict unemployment regulations will ease up and make it easier for millions of Americans to access these vital unemployment funds.