[steve8714]

People are not required to have unemployment insurance.

[txrangerette]

If employers are defined as people, they pay for unemployment insurance for the contingency of their employees needing it at some point. The comment even says, ***employers*** required to have it, therefore it was people who employ others that was meant.

[Buckeye McFrog]

People are not required to have unemployment insurance.

I know people who were employed by Catholic churches and institutions, who were laid-off and could not collect unemployment because under "separation of church and state" they could not be compelled to buy the insurance.

Of course...the same used to be true of birth control.