I read it as people with unemployment benefits didn't take jobs until the benefits expired. Question is, are they low paying jobs? When I was unemployed, it would have been a waste to take a $10 hr job and not get benefits vs spending hours a day looking for a high paying one.
. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > That article made no sense at all to me. > > "The new new working paper found that the expiration of benefits was > responsible for the creation of over 1.8 million jobs. Nearly 1 million of > those jobs were created by workers who would have otherwise stayed out of > the labor force if unemployment benefits had been extended. Overall, almost > 3 million jobs were created in 2014." > > So the jobs were magically created by unemployed people looking for them? > The number of people looking for work far outpaced the number of jobs > available. How...just, what? > > Could someone try to explain their logic? It really makes less than 0 sense > to me as written. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:373144 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
