Demand For Unemployment Insurance Continue As Benefits Run Out For Many In Mass.

Many Massachusetts workers won't see any wage increase today because they're not employed.

About 27,000 people applied for first-time unemployment benefits last week. That many applied the week before that.

Meantime, whole sectors of the state's workforce have already cycled through their regular unemployment benefits.

For a look at the effects of the pandemic on the state's economy and workforce — and where we're headed — WBUR's Morning Edition spoke with Megan Greene, a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School.