I don’t suppose cutting people off from unemployment is going to make jobs magically appear, but you never know! See no evil, hear no evil…
The share of jobless Americans receiving unemployment insurance is declining as Congress winds down long-term benefits.
While the unemployed population has fallen by less than 10 percent in the past year, the insurance rolls are down by nearly 25 percent. The latest numbers show 12.7 million unemployed and 5.6 million getting benefits, compared with 13.9 million jobless and 7.3 million receiving aid at the same time last year.
Lauren Heslin of Marietta, Ga., said she received her final check of unemployment insurance last week. She lost her job as a financial analyst in November 2010, and she said the $277 she received each week in benefits amounted to less than a quarter of her former income.
“It barely even put food on the table,” she said.
Heslin did not receive the 99 weeks of benefits that have been famous since 2009. Georgia, along with a dozen other states, lost eligibility for the federal Extended Benefits program in April. Earlier this year, Congress and the White House saw to it that Extended Benefits, which provided 20 weeks of aid in states with high unemployment, would gradually phase out in state after state over the course of the year.
Congress replaced the missing weeks with drug testing, stricter work-search requirements and leeway for states to run innovative training programs, which no states have tried to do so far.
The Labor Department said Thursday that 5,223 people received Extended Benefits last week — down from 525,799 the prior year and more than a million at some points in 2010. After August, no state will be eligible for the program.
“Let them eat cake.” “It’s better to teach a man how to fish than it is to give him a fish to eat.” The problem is that you might not live all that close to a body of water with fish in it or have the sugar and yeast required to bake a cake. Ayn Rand and Paul Ryan’s solution to those issues? They have no solution because they really don’t give a damn about your problems. They have theirs now you get yours.
Well, as bodies start piling up in the streets, Americans might start taking to them to fight back and demand their rights as human beings. Of course Rethugs will dismiss their claims out of hand and Democrats will negotiate them away for a ‘compromise.’
“Congress replaced the missing weeks with drug testing, stricter work-search requirements and leeway for states to run innovative training programs,”
OMG Someone tell Mitt that Congress repealed the job search requirements in the unemployment benefit!
Hey, M. Willard Rmoney is unemployed, and he’s not complaining.
Ron, that’s why Federal agencies are ordering all those hollow point bullets….
If we go all French Revolution –or American Revolution– on them, they’ll be prepared to take us out. Plus, the police are now militarized, so expect no quarter from them…as long as they’re getting theirs, however diminished.
The Feds are saying these bullets are merely for training and firing range practice, which, as this Examiner article shows, raises even more questions. Something smells rotten in the Obama administration…. (Do these bullets have “OWS” stamped on them?)
Hollow point bullets? Wouldn’t they damage the targets so much they’d be unreadable in determining the skill development of the shooter?
Huh…why is my comment “awating moderation”?
Because it had links in it, which might mean you’re a spammer.