Yes, that extra $600 a week in unemployment removes incentives to work

It’s taken for granted that a good portion of what you see reported and discussed in the national media is a lie. But every now and then, they tell a lie so absurd that you wonder if they truly hate their audience.

The latest example in this never-ending saga comes from Jamelle Bouie at the New York Times, who, like every other liberal, has never seen a welfare program he doesn’t think everyone should be entitled to. He wrote with a straight face Friday that there is “no evidence” that the extra unemployment money people got as part of the first relief bill had the unintended consequence of “keeping people who want to work from working.”