Reply #109: The gov isn't doing it for the businesses

[pipoman]

it is doing it for desperately unemployed people. It is the state's job to assist the unemployed. Job service centers have been offering various types of assistance for decades including basic job training, resume' workshops, interview skills workshops, etc. Some people just are too full of themselves to believe that they are not all that, that they must sell themselves to a prospective employer, then must work hard...even go above and beyond, to get a decent job. Six weeks at a reduced rate and the benefit to business of being able to try before they buy (the employee) is an incentive to try a person who may not otherwise make the cut. I really think the only people who would oppose such an attempt to stimulate jobs are those who either lazy and believe that they should be employed just because they need a job or the types who remain on unemployment until it runs out because they can.