If the hyperbolic claims are to be believed, American workers are luxuriating in the largesse of taxpayer-funded payments, thumbing their noses at the benevolent and generous employers who are struggling to fill job vacancies.
Cutting back aid for jobless workers now, while suitable jobs are still not available for many of them, is not just cruel but undermines the objective of the assistance to speed up the economic recovery.
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What happened to the record number of people that were unemployed over the past 14 months? Economist Robert Reich joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss what’s behind the labor shortage.
The slow, decades-long destruction of the US unemployment insurance system has resulted in more than just personal hardship for millions of workers — it has further weakened the fighting strength of the whole working class.
There is very little evidence that enhanced unemployment insurance benefits created sectoral labor shortages.
In March, 495,000 women entered the labor force, but the figures betray the harsher economic situation for Black women and many have dropped out altogether.
This book, writes reviewer Harvey, seeks "to provide an account of the nature and extent of the unemployment problem in the United States since the beginning of the industrial era following the end of the Civil War."
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