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MICKEY KAUS: ?So the Obama White House itself studied whether extended unemployment benefits have d?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: “So the Obama White House itself studied whether extended unemployment benefits have discouraged people from going back to work? What did they conclude? It’s hard to believe that long-term unemployment benefits, however justified on humanitarian grounds, don’t discourage people to settle for the jobs that are available. And if stimulus is what we care about–well, you’d think stimulus spending would be most effective if it didn’t come in the form of benefits that required non-work.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).