Don’t Blame Unemployment Insurance for Our Jobs Crisis The Great Recession has not been a great vacation. Four years since the recovery officially began, many people are still unemployed not because they don’t want to work, but because, with three job-seekers for every job opening, they can’t find any work. And they are trying to find work. Indeed, a new paper by Rand Ghayad, a visiting scholar at the […]
Rand Paul Couldn’t Be More Wrong About Unemployment Insurance Imagine you lost your job when the economy was in free fall, and six months later it was still in free fall. You sent out resumés every day, and every day you heard nothing back from companies too scared to hire. Then things finally started to look better. Companies finally started to think about hiring […]