CSPAN Media Coverage Of Lobbying January 12, 2014
This would allow unemployed individuals to take a job paying 18,000 dollars a year, which on its own is not enough to make ends meet, but then they receive a federal enhancement to make the job a more enticing alternative to simply collecting unemployment insurance. Unlike the earned income tax credit, my proposal would apply the same to singles as to married couples and families with children. It would be a preferable means of distributing benefits, since it would arrive in sync with a monthly or biweekly paycheck rather than a yearend lumpsum credit. It is a better way of supporting lowincom...