GOP Approves Jobs Bill to Deny UI to Jobless Lacking Diploma or GED

[sasha031]

GOP Approves Jobs Bill to Deny UI to Jobless Lacking Diploma or GED.

Wednesday, a congressional panel approved a Republican bill that would allow states to divert $31 billion worth of federal money for the long-term unemployed and use it to pay down state debt instead. The bill also would disqualify jobless Americans from receiving unemployment benefits if they lack a high school diploma or a GED. The bill would also set a national minimum standard for work-search requirements for laid off workers who apply for benefits.

The Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits and Services Act (JOBS Act for short), approved by the House Ways and Means Committee, would let states trim or even eliminate extra weeks of benefits, which currently support more 4.1 million laid-off workers. The bill now heads to the full House of Representatives.

What is next? No UI benefits unless you have a college degree? This is just the latest assault on the poor, especially since the GOP seems determined to cut education programs and has already devastated the college grants once available to assist low income Americans seeking a college education.

http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in-san-diego/gop-approves-jobs-bill-to-deny-ui-to-jobless-lacking-diploma-or-ged

[Autumn]

1. Those bastards are all

fucking crazy,

[Donnachaidh]

2. Jesus H. Christ on a Cracker!

Evil bastards the lot of them!

[Odin2005]

3. That is fucked up, and racist as hell, too.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Perhaps it is time to require any person running for or in congress

have a PHD in Political Science and a Masters in Economics
or pass a test put together by the top 15 economic educators

and pass an empathy test

[Drale]

7. Just the empathy test would weed out ever republican.

[TBF]

14. And a good share of the democrats as well.

I don't see either party doing a thing for workers.

[eShirl]

5. does that mean no payroll deductions for people w/o a diploma or GED?

[dkf]

17. I don't think there is a payroll deduction but a tax that employers pay.

Also most of UI is for state benefits. But there is a smaller amount that covers the federal part of UI which extends coverage beyond the state UI benefits. This is the part the GOP seems to be addressing.

That is a good question though. Why a should employers pay the federal part of UI if the employee isn't eligible.

[KamaAina]

6. And where are most Americans with less than a high school education found?

Why, that'd be in the Red states. :grr: :banghead: :argh: :nuke:

[KamaAina]

8. How is that even legal?

If you have a job, you have a job. If you've paid into the system, you've paid into the system.

[Dawson Leery]

16. +1

:thumbsup:

[leftstreet]

9. Where are the Democrats with something 'radical' from the other side?

Where's a Democratic bill for a universal basic income?

:shrug:

[sasha031]

10. don't ya just love the Orwellian title,

The Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits Act

[leftstreet]

11. No Peasant Left Alive

:grr:

[coalition_unwilling]

12. Even if this bill were passed in each chamber of Congress and even

if Obama signed it into law, I believe it would have serious problems with the Constitution's 'equal protection' clause. Any Constitutional law experts out there?

[defendandprotect]

13. They never get enough of attacking the weakest among us -- !!!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. Mean, shortsighted and ignorant. They want to cut off their nose to spite their hateful face

If people w/o a GED/diploma work without possible unemployment benefits. Don't they get that their employers won't be paying in their UI on them? Thus their funds on both a State and Federal level will be reduced by the amount paid out for all the no GED/HS diploma holding employees in the United State.

[jp11]

18. Wow, just, wow.

[Old and In the Way]

19. Perhaps not a politically smart move on their part.

It wouldn't surprise me if Non-GED voters skew more Republican in their voting preference. They would be more susceptible to buy the RW propaganda.

[Maru Kitteh]

29. On FaceBook, every poster I saw who said something about drug testing "welfare" recipients had been

both a drug user and a recipient of social assistance at one time or another. Every - single - one.

[nevergiveup]

20. There are no words

[Codeine]

21. A certain someone with a bully pulpit and a fine oratorical skill

should be making political hay of this.

[Zoeisright]

22. Where are the jobs you promised, you lying fucking bastards?

Christ.

[digitaln3rd]

23. So Boner hasn't added any jobs AND increased homelessness.

Republicans: Good at campaigning, bad at governing.

[FLyellowdog]

24. This is beyond belief.

I'm beginning to think that there is no stopping these SOBs. My heart breaks over what is happening in this country.

[Maru Kitteh]

25. My mom never made it past the 7th grade because the family the orphanage lent her out to

felt her time was better spent in the capacity of a domestic servant on their farm.

Dog, I hate the GOP.

[Canuckistanian]

26. Whoa. That's new.

Just when when think the depravity couldn't go any lower....

[Rage for Order]

27. Then I suppose they will offer paid schooling for them instead?

Yeah, I don't think so either

:eyes:

[Mojeoux]

28. Kicked Recced and Shared

:kick:

[JDPriestly]

30. Horrors!

[elehhhhna]

31. oh yeah that's totally aligned with the Constitution

not.