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CNN’s Candy Crowley: “People are unemployed because they want to be? “


Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: “Well, it is the truth. And people in the real world know it,”

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Ryan Grim noted in The Huffington Post that “unemployment benefits are generally so small that much of it is often used to pay for COBRA health insurance, even when subsidized. The size of the benefits does not generally cover the cost of living and it would be hard to find a single person who would prefer unemployment to having a job so that they could get subsidized COBRA.” - rawstory