MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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This is good news for people who have to file for unemployment benefits in Florida. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that would make everyone who was applying for unemployment benefits to pass a written test on line to be eligible. The Federal Court ruled against it because it was discriminatory. The whole system is Florida is broken because it is difficult to sign up for it. The computer system and phone system is usually overloaded or down. I watched my son struggle with it for months trying to file on line during the window set for him. He would get kicked off before he was finished and then he would have to call for days to get a hold of a person to put him in the system again and finish his entries. His computer skills are good and typing speed is average so it was the overload on the system that would sometimes shut him out. So to add insult to the process the state house came up with the test too. Florida has the lowest rate of participation in the unemployment insurance program in the country and our unemployment is much higher then the official numbers out today. I hope the Democrats running for state office in 2014 makes this an issue.
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Mother Jones has more details in this post: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/tea-party-florida-unemployment-benefits This is why Rick Scott will not get a second term.
by trkingmomoe on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 1:40am
If only the Obama feds blasting things Republican amounted to anything.
The participation rate of 16% in the program speaks volumes, the GOP would love to do that to Medicare.
by NCD on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 10:26am
I see people pan handling everytime I leave the house now. Before you only saw them in the winter and you could tell they were druggies and drunks. But now that is not the case because there is 3 homeless camps near where I live. This all started a few years ago and the neighborhood has really gone down hill. I have been here 19 years and this used to be a nice place to live. I expect the bottom half of Florida to continue to turn bright blue because the voters know who to blame.
by trkingmomoe on Sat, 04/27/2013 - 12:14am