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> they didn’t index the unemployment to the person’s earnings...we didn’t have an easy way to implement a more complex unemployment system at a national level

This wasn't an oversight or logistical concern [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/26/coronavirus...

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From your own article: >President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin worked to convince those senators that the universal $600 unemployment boost would be more efficient than varying supplements by income because that would require the federal government to administer funds through a patchwork of state-run unemployment programs, The Washington Post reported.

The point made above is that this was a well-known aspect of the supplement. That the executive had other reasons for pushing the bill anyways doesn’t change that.

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