In the last few months, conservatives in several states have moved to limit unemployment benefits, even with the national unemployment rate at 9 percent and more than 40 percent of the unemployed having been out of work for six months or more. Conservative lawmakers in Utah falsely claimed that cutting jobless benefits would be ‘motivation for people to get back to work,
Monday, May 9th, 2011
Florida Cuts Unemployment Benefits To Pay For Corporate Tax Cut
Author: PAT GAROFALO
Source: Think Progress
Publication Date: May 8th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Link: Florida Cuts Unemployment Benefits To Pay For Corporate Tax Cut
Source: Think Progress
Publication Date: May 8th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Link: Florida Cuts Unemployment Benefits To Pay For Corporate Tax Cut
Stephan: Conservative Republicans don't even bother to hide their attack on the middle class. In their Ayn Randian vision government should provide no safety net at all. Yet middle class people vote for their own destruction over and over again. Such is the power of ideology and theology over good sense and actual facts.
