When low unemployment is bad news
But don’t let Congress’s dysfunction convince you that extending benefits is at all controversial. It would be one thing if Jason Furman and Gene Sperling, two of the Obama administration’s top economists, were the only ones on board. But they’re not. So are Michael R. Strain and James Pethokoukis of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, Reihan Salam of the National Review, and economist Scott Winship, Rep. Paul Ryan’s economic policy adviser.
