Welcome back to Weekly Political Pep Talks! Today's main topic will be unemployment in the US. We'll start the episode with a quick intro then we'll get into three main current events for the week, regarding the new South African COVID variant, the  guilty verdict in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery, and the decrease in jobless claims in the US. Next, we'll move on to our main topic segment about unemployment. We'll start with some definitions related to this topic, look at some background on unemployment policies in the US and how employment has been dealt with throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, then share our thoughts. If you have any thoughts you'd like to share with us, feel free to DM us on Instagram @weeklypoliticalpeptalks. That's it for today, so be sure to join us next week. Happy listening and stay political!

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