CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 28, 2014
Longterm unemployed across america. It has been a myth that has been put forth and those who seek to undermine this program that individuals who are receiving unemployment assistance who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more, simply are sitting home looking to collect a check without going out and actively searching for employment. Nothing can be further from the truth. The reality is, and this is connected to the dynamic around income inequality that we are discussing here today, is that for every 2. 8 million, 2. 9 million americans who are unemployed looking for a job, there is only one...