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Government-funded unemployment insurance payments have probably kept millions of people from living on the streets and starving during this recession. So naturally, jobless benefits are to blame for the high unemployment rate. Or so argues Harvard professor Robert Barro in The Wall Street Journal. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) issued a similar analysis in March 2010. Still, that logic isn't persuasive -- although it's popular among those who would like to roll back the U.S. to the way it was before FDR.
Barro argues that unemployment insurance makes people turn down job offers so they can sit on t
Originally posted by chiponbothshoulders
reply to post by jimmyx
In a perfect world,the employer would ask you how much you needed to get by,do you have a mortgage?,etcetera...
And pay you enough to get away once in awhile,but not enough to break free of the necessity of still working.
Greed is the problem here,straight up.
America ain't by any means #1,it's one of the worst places in the world to work.
Do your research....
Originally posted by The Old American
Go to different fast food restaurants that display "Help Wanted" or "Now Hiring" and gather applications. When you see someone on the side of the road with a "will work for food" sign, hand them an application. A month later they will likely still be there. Getting a job is easy. Accepting one isn't so much for some people apparently.
/TOA
Originally posted by The Old American
Go to different fast food restaurants that display "Help Wanted" or "Now Hiring" and gather applications. When you see someone on the side of the road with a "will work for food" sign, hand them an application. A month later they will likely still be there. Getting a job is easy. Accepting one isn't so much for some people apparently.
/TOA
Originally posted by The Old American
Go to different fast food restaurants that display "Help Wanted" or "Now Hiring" and gather applications. When you see someone on the side of the road with a "will work for food" sign, hand them an application. A month later they will likely still be there. Getting a job is easy. Accepting one isn't so much for some people apparently.
/TOA