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Six months. the question here is are long-term jobless benefits actually leading people to stay unemployed longer. we have somebody here who has crunched some numbers for us. robert shim ser is a professor of economics here at the university of chicago and inadvertently gotten himself piled in a bunch of unsavories who say that people are choosing not to get jobs. and robert, you have heard this that the club for growth has said it on this show that it is causing people, and a disincentive to go back to work because of unemployment benefits which is a little bit insulting to the millions of pe...

Subsidizing unemployment. >> interesting conversation. >> also, we would have less of a disinventive effect, and the cost would be borne i would say more appropriately. >> interesting and innovative idea and tough to do in the middle of an economic recovery right now that we are stuck with. >> i understand that. >> but i do appreciate the point that you made that economics can explain the effects of it, but you are not necessarily saying it is the right thing to do, but just giving us the facts which is what we appreciate and why we wanted to bring you on. robert shimer is a professor of econo...

Keeping you from getting a job. wait a minute, before you yell at the tv, i'm not saying that. that is the words from the growing number of exxon ser con and one professor who says that you are paid to stay home. i will talk to that professor. plus, a grueling night for people in arkansas. first they heard roaring and then their homes were rip apart. we will show you the aftermath of nature's fury. her name wasstein a steven it is susan. we will show you some of his and we will show you some of his and her story this hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com all right. i want to talk t...

Unemployment benefits. an increasing number of people on the show have made the point that they feel that this extending of unemployment benefits is what is causing at least some people not to go out to get a job. the implication is that people like the tiny bit of money they get on unemployment benefits, and to get it without working means that they are not out there frying to get a job. a professor from university of chicago of economics with a well respected economics department, gentleman named robert shimer has been quoted as saying that he reckons that the current level of benefits proba...