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Yankee06
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Unemployment
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3/5/2010 12:41:32 AM
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-Unemployment is a tough issue to deal with. Each case has to be evaluated on its own.
-However, having said that, let's generalize for sake of discussion.
-Let's take a 30 year-old man who has worked all his adult life. He is layed off. As I understand it, Alabama's unemployment system pays between $45 -$255 per week. How much a person receives depends on several factors such as work history, pay history, family, etc.
-Now let's say our guy above qualifies for the $255 per week, is he going to take a job that pays $8 an hour for $320 per week, a mere $75 difference?. Unlikely. When you put in the cost of going to work (gas, lunch, clothes cleaning, baby sitting, etc)then it's very unlikely.
-Now if our guy, because of his work history etc, is only going receive unemployment compensation of $150 per week, then he
might take that $320 job because it means an extra $170 per week, that might be worth getting off the couch for.
-I've worked with single mothers with 2 or 3 kids, and to make it worth while for them to go to work they need a job that pays at least $12/hour.
-How long can one receive benefits? I'm not sure today, but it use to be 26 weeks unemployment, another 33 weeks for extended unemployment, then another 20 for emergency extended unemployment. It's either a long time to be on teh couch watching TV ...or a long time for not being able to pay your mortgage, your kids tuition, your medical insurance, or take your wife out to dinner, etc......
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