Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Jackerman Show. I am your host, Paul Prescott. I'm here as you can see with a great young kale. How are you doing, kale?

I'm good. I'm good. I'm happy to be here. I wasn't exactly the plan to be here today, but I'm happy to just jump in for a little bit and then I'm going to leave and actually be replaced by the actual co-host.

I think I have a little surprise. Surprise co-hosts last one of the past coming soon. So stick around for that. But great to have kale here as always, a great producer.

But this is going to be a really great show. I'm excited about it. We're going to have an interview with Noam Chomsky soon talking about where we're at 20 years after 9-11 and the war on terror.

Or before that going to also have Jenny Brown to talk about the latest abortion ban on tech in Texas. So stick around for that. And before we get to all that, though, or go ahead, yeah.

The interview is pre-recorded. Sorry. But it's actually, it's really fantastic. I know Chomsky does the rounds quite a bit that he does a lot of interviews these days.

And we're all the better off for it that he's still able to share so much wisdom and kind of both like from his actual like time being on the left and being among the anti-war movement.

And also just being one of the great political thinkers of our age and our day that just consumes so much information constantly.

And I'm, you know, I'm not part of the interview technically. I am very proud of this one that I think people, there's a lot to kind of take out of what he's saying.

So stick around for that.

I mean, someone we kind of take for granted on the left now. He's been around so long. And I mean, there's so many people including myself that kind of entered left pals through surprisingly watching YouTube videos of Chomsky or reading his writings.

You know, he's not exactly like the most flashy speaker, but I think because his ideas are so compelling. That's why someone else are drawn to it. So definitely excited about that.

But before we get to our guests, I want to talk about something that I mean to related but different things that are in the news today. So one of them is that today or starting yesterday unemployment benefits were stopped for most Americans.

And also we also got the latest jobs numbers that do not look good for a month of August.

And so I don't know if this is whether, you know, symbolic or ironic or tragic, but yesterday on Labor Day unemployment benefits related to COVID-19, the extra $300 a week, what cut across the entire country.

9.2 million people were receiving benefits from either the pandemic emergency unemployment compensation program or the pandemic unemployment assistance program.

But it affects way more than 9.2 million people. According to the census data, the average household that was receiving unemployment benefits had three point at members in it.

So 35 million people in total live in households that will no longer be receiving unemployment benefits as of today.

Economists and others in the Biden administration are justifying these cuts by pointing to strong job growth and recovery over the last few months, but something strange is happening in the economy right now.

There are reportedly 10 million job openings, but still almost 9 million people unemployed. For some, the obvious answer is that unemployment benefits kept people who could have easily found a job from going back to work.

But that theory misses the real dynamics of what's going on here.

We can look at the 20 states that cut the extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits back in June.

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