For those that think unemployment benefits should be extended, please look to North Carolina for real leadership: The idea that cutting off unemployment benefits would force people back to work is not shocking, nor is it an untested hypothesis. Last July, payments to the jobless in North Carolina were terminated. At that time, the unemployment rate was 8.9 percent. By year end, the unemployment rate fell to 6.9 percent, the biggest dip in unemployment in the country. Most impressive, the number of people with jobs in the state rose 1.28 percent. Nationally, employment increased only 0.21 percent during that period
Posted on: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:43:08 +0000
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