Workers in most states are eligible for up to 26 weeks of benefits from the regular state-funded unemployment compensation program, although 13 states provide fewer weeks, and two provide more. Extended Benefits (EB) are not triggered on in any state. Additional weeks of pandemic federal benefits ended in all states on September 6, 2021. Updated […]

d product accounts over time, possibly affecting their estimates of the share of total income growth occurring at the top of the distribution. Recent work by Piketty, Saez, and Zucman (PSZ) tries to address this concern by ambitiously combining tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of total national income, both before […]