Extending Unemployment benefits
I am getting scared of running out of an unemployment extensions, but I realize it is time for them to come to an end. I totally understand our country has funded these extension for too long and I need to get off this government subsidy so I can start working day laborer and telemarketing jobs to eek out a living. It is also provide me incentive to start to cold-calling employers out of the phone book for jobs. Yes, I hate my dilemma, but not having a subsidy incentives me to take more drastic actions to look for a job.
Yes, I would like to have an accounting or even a clerical jobs that pays as low as $12.00 (I really do not care about pay, I just want to have a desk job), but the reality is that I got a take a crap job because I did not rely on the right methods to look for a job.
It is time for an extended unemployment benefits to end and to get rid of an artificial incentive not to work.
However, I live an area whether there is lots of low-paying jobs and less surplus labor than most areas so I should not be extended unemployment benefits after the end of the year.
What my real concern about losing long-term unemployment benefit is the effect on people that lives in very economically depressed regions which do not have abundance of low-paying jobs and do not have to resources to relocate. This is why I believe that the unemployment benefits need to be extended for another year. The other statistic is that the labor participation is right now is real low so there is real suppression on the true amount of labor that is potentially available work right now.
Our lawmakers seem ignore these facts and I am afraid that a lot of people are going to hungry because of government inaction. For me, I think the government should not incentive me for not using the correct methods for job-searching such as personal networking or cold-calling employers which are considered to be the correct methods for job searching.
