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This is one of the most ridiculous proposals I've ever seen.
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/09/10075106-gop-plan-no-hs-diploma-no-unemployment-check
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Out of work and without a high school diploma? If youre collecting unemployment insurance, you may soon be out of luck.
As Congress returns from the holiday recess, one of the most pressing items on its agenda will the two-month extension of jobless benefits enacted late last month. The compromise deal, part of a two-month extension of a payroll tax cut, tabled debate on wider reforms to the unemployment insurance program.
Those reforms include shortening the length of time jobless workers can collect benefits and a provision that would require anyone collecting them to have a high school diploma or be enrolled in an adult education program working toward a General Educational Development, or GED, certificate.
If they implement this idiotic idea they need to make sure they pay every person without a diploma every single penny they've paid into the Unemployment INSURANCE program. There are people without a diploma who have been paying into UI for 40 - 50 years. These right wingers really are morons. They really make me sick.