[lbo-talk] Unemployed Pride

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>There are about 2.8 million people drawing unemployment benefits in 
>the U.S., with about 330,000 signing up every week (and somewhat 
>more dropping off). There's plenty to work with there. But what's 
>the message of this leaflet?
>
>Doug

The main message should be that _all_ involuntarily jobless 
individuals must be given unemployment compensation.  "For every 100 
jobless Ohio workers, only 36 got unemployment compensation (UC) in 
2003.  Nationally, 41 of every 100 jobless workers received benefits 
last year; states with the greatest coverage paid to well over 50 of 
every 100 unemployed residents" (at 
<http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/UCReptExecSummarySept04.pdf>).
-- 
Yoshie

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