Unemployment Myths, Busted
Do unemployment checks prolong the recession? To listen to some, sending those weekly checks just encourages people to sit at home watching videos on YouTube. But according to Les Leopold, author of The Looting of America, that’s patently wrong.
“We’re down 8 million since the start of the Great Recession. We aren’t even creating enough new jobs to keep up with population growth. So what jobs are the unemployed not taking?” he writes. “Economist Dean Baker suggests that the Republicans are trying to keep unemployment as high as possible right now because they think that high jobless numbers will spell disaster for the Democrats in November.
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