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From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

This is Elin Nakashima with Washington Post.

This is Post Reports.

I'm Martín Powers.

It's Wednesday, July 22.

Today, the future of unemployment benefits, the rollback of a key environmental law, and a potential kink in the vaccine supply chain.

I've been noticing that over the past couple of weeks, you have been tweeting a lot about Reddit and stuff that you've been reading on Reddit. Tell me more about that.

A few weeks ago, I noticed that people who have been on the federal unemployment program that approved hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency aid for people who have lost their jobs have been taking their stories online and sharing how important these benefits have been to them.

The stories that you can see on this Reddit page are unemployment or are really unvarnished and quite frankly amazing look at how important this federal emergency unemployment benefit has been to thousands of not millions of people across the country.

One of the things that I love about the forum is after someone posts, you know, I finally got through I waited months and I finally got my benefits hold on.

Everyone in the comments section, including people who are still waiting will say congratulations. That's great for you. I hope my day comes sometime soon.

My name is Jeff Stein. I'm the White House economics reporter for the Washington Post.

And yet it's clear that the unemployment that exists is still not enough for a lot of people who are really struggling right now. I mean, we've seen people who are waiting in interminable lines to try to just get through and get on unemployment and get some help.

What has been the most frustrating thing about all this for you?

We've seen people throughout the country struggle to get through and get their unemployment benefits. But our colleague Annie Gowen went to Oklahoma where the problem is particularly acute and people were not just waiting for unemployment benefits by calling them.

And they were actually camping outside of the unemployment offices.

To get to unemployment is hard because we can't communicate with them.

Sleeping there to try to get their benefits.

I sold my home and I'm closing in two and a half weeks for the cash.

I mean, I need this. I need it. And I mean, I've never been one to do unemployment. But with all that's going on, I don't really have any other option.

So this this federal unemployment money that has been helping a lot of people around the country.

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