Rick Helliwell News Today

Former house speaker newt gingrich writing yesterday, "the extension of unemployment benefits has given people a perverse incentive to stay on unemployment rather than accept a job." he continued, "the wall street journal" quotes an engineer who admits he turned down more than a dozen offers because the salary would have been less than he made on welfare. this story encapsulates the problem of the long-term unemployed, the depth and length of this recession is at risk of creating a permanent poo...