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To: Wyatt's Torch

How about this question?

“So, why all the fuss about extending jobless benefits? After all, the unemployment rate is down again.”


53 posted on 02/07/2014 8:05:04 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: John W

Read the Business Insider post at #49.

Rosenberg added in his testimony that the patchwork of state and federal benefits program might be distorting the signal sent by the LFPR as it may be incentivizing some people to stay out of the labor market.

“One theory that deserves examination is that we may have an abundance of separate benefits programs that provide for the disenfranchised in a very piecemeal and inefficient manner that are also perhaps abused or overly relied upon by some, which may lead to a distortion of work incentives,” he said.


59 posted on 02/07/2014 8:18:46 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch
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