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NC: What Happened When North Carolina Slashed Unemployment Benefits? People Got Jobs.
Saturday, January 18, 2014 10:42
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Via WiscoDave
A recent report on Market Watch—hardly a right-wing hangout—should be required reading for every Democrat who believes that extending “temporary” unemployment benefits is always the humane thing to do.
An experiment in North Carolina indicates that—as is all too often the case—Democrats actually may be hurting the very people they claim to be helping in their quest, temporarily halted, to extend unemployment benefits.
North Carolina, it seems, pressed for money and under the cruel sway of a Republican governor, resorted to drastic measures: slashing unemployment benefits and, as if that wasn’t draconian enough, cutting the number of weeks the unemployed could receive even these meager benefits.
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Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/01/nc-what-happened-when-north-carolina.html
