The expiry of the remaining enhanced unemployment insurance programs at the end of the year would hit the incomes of the unemployed but would be unlikely to deal a major blow to the economy. With another stimulus deal possible early next year, it is the continued spread of the virus, not the expiry of fiscal support, that poses the real downside risk to the economy over the next few months.
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