North Carolina Attempts To Address Budget Problem Brought On By Generous Unemployment Benefits

I shake my head whenever I read articles such as the one referenced here wondering how many people are taken in by such transparent attempts to mislead and misdirect…..

The $535 a week the state had been paying was the highest in the Southeast, The Associated Press reports. Now the level is about even with what neighboring states pay.

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Normally in America, jobless folks can count on the federal government to pick up the slack when state payments run out. Not anymore in North Carolina.

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That’s because by cutting its jobless benefits, the state is now disqualified from the federal program that gives aid to the long-term unemployed. It’s the federal government’s way of making sure states keep up their share of jobless payments.

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Hmmmm….bottom line….another example of how the consequences of following liberal policies are always either bad or worse then predicted….