 Paul Krugman (Image by david_shankbone) Details DMCA | Last week John Boehner, the speaker of the House, explained to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute what's holding back employment in America: laziness. People, he said, have "this idea" that "I really don't have to work. I don't really want to do this. I think I'd rather just sit around." Holy 47 percent, Batman! Most of the unemployed have been cut off. Only 26 percent of jobless Americans are receiving any kind of unemployment benefit, the lowest level in many decades. Why is there so much animus against the unemployed, such a strong conviction that they're getting away with something, at a time when they're actually being treated with unprecedented harshness? |
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