It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
“I have been watching the Democrats run the USA for four years. The police are still corrupt and incompetent, their ‘green’ energy… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
“Unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed in the USA!” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image