Unemployment Extensions

Unemployment continues to hold well above 9 percent and 90 percent of the job growth in the last quarter have been census jobs. Those jobs will go away soon. The administration has all but admitted they do not know how to promote job growth.

Currently with extensions provided by the Feds workers can get up to 99 weeks for unemployment benefits. This is a long time. I was unemployed for quite sometime. For most folks however the benefits are not close to what they were making. I, for one, do not believe that a majority of people will stay home if they can find work. The question is at what point must a worker go back to work for a lesser paying job than they had before. If the only jobs available are jobs that are paying what a person can get on unemployment the problem is not the extension of the unemployment benefits but the failure of the economy to produce jobs that pay well.

And yet Republicans and not a few Democrats are not wondering about the extension of benefits. Certainly the government cannot continually support folks, but until the government does something meaningful to produce jobs bailing on those that need help might seem to be a bit premature.