The real scandal – which no speaker in Tampa will mention – is only 40 percent of America’s unemployed qualify for unemployment benefits. That’s because most people who lost their jobs had been working part-time on several jobs before they were let go. Or they hadn’t been working long enough on a full-time job to qualify for unemployment insurance. In addition, only a small fraction of the nation’s poor any longer qualify for welfare. The 1996 legislation that formally ended the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children program provided just five years of aid in a person’s lifetime. But given how deep the recession has been and how long it’s continued, many of the nation’s poor have reached their lifetime limit. Meanwhile, millions of unemployed Americans and their families have lost health insurance that had been provided by their employers. What’s the Republican answer? To repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act, so 30 million Americans will lose health-insurance coverage. Robert Reich ☀
Wednesday 29 August 2012
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