In today's press there are a couple interesting stories about the debate in Congress over unemployment insurance (UI): cutting benefits, drug testing, limiting UI to high school graduates, diverting UI funds to politicians' pet projects. A new frontier for neoliberalism.
In today's San Francisco Chronicle, business columnist Kathleen Pender gives a good brief summary: "Deadline for federal jobless benefits looms" while Colorlines focuses on the racially coded demonization of UI recipients at "House GOP’s Jobless Image: Drugged Out, Lazy and in Need of a GED".
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