Welfare's Unintended Consequences
A system that hurts those it's intended to help.
Unemployment Benefits
Basic Income/Negative Income Tax
Finland Wants to Replace Welfare Programs With a Minimum Income for All Residents
The basic-income scheme is meant to save Finland money and reduce the country's high unemployment rate.
The Employment Benefits of Cutting Unemployment Benefits
Does a new NBER study prove that cutting unemployment benefits increases employment?
Dear Sacramento: Tossing Away $500 Million Is Why Your State Is Screwed
Bureaucrats can't get act together enough to recover huge sums in overpaid unemployment benefits.
Obama Wants Businesses, Federal Government to Hire Long-Term Unemployed
Says they're hard workers
Reid to Allow Some GOP Amendments to Unemployment Extension
Criticizes for blocking them
Sen. Harry Reid Cautiously Optimistic About Unemployment Compromise
Would provide 31 additional weeks in exchange for cuts elsewhere
Fraud Still a Problem with Unemployment Program
$7.7 billion in improper payments in 2013
Unemployment Extension Moving Forward in Senate After Getting to 60 Votes
Some will vote against it after having voted for it
Senate Poised To Vote on Restoring Unemployment Benefits
Despite some lawmakers not being in Washington, D.C.
Sen. Reid: Democrats Will Work Towards Extending Unemployment Benefits
Needs support from five Republicans to avoid a filibuster on a plan to extend the benefits for three months
Obama Urges Congress To Restore Unemployment Benefits
A bipartisan Senate proposal would reinstate jobless benefits for three months
Nancy Pelosi: "Simply Immoral" Not to Extend Unemployment Benefits
So give her more money
California's Unemployment Fund Owes Nearly $10 Billion to the Federal Government
466,000 Californians are on unemployment benefits
Glitch Cuts Off Californians from Unemployment Checks
Affects 80,000 people and could take weeks to resolve
States Cut Unemployment Benefits
They're an expensive counter-incentive to work
Audit Says 20,000 NJ Inmates Were Mistakenly Paid Millions in Benefits
$24 million in total
Jobless Claims Up More Than Expected
After falling more than expected the previous week
Unemployment Claims Drop to 346,000
Previous weekly numbers were revised upward
Fewer Workers Filing for Unemployment Claims
But businesses stagnant on both hiring and firing
New Jobless Claims Hit Five Year Low
330,000 initial claims for state unemployment benefits
Labor Dept. Calculates $5 Billion in Bad Unemployment Payments
For fiscal year 2011-12
Hundreds of D.C. City Workers in Unemployment Scam
They pocketed a cool two million dollars
North Carolina Owes Feds $2.4 Billion for Unemployment Funding
State legislators working out plan to pay funds back