While Mitch McConnell and Congressional Republicans threaten the US with default on its debt, his home State of Kentucky suffers from some of the highest poverty and unemployment and some of the worst public health and environmental problems in the country. McConnell's Kentucky is not a vision for the rest of America most of us want to see.
Monday, December 6, 2010
McConnell's Christmas present to 33,000 of Kentucky's unemployed: lose your benefits
Kentucky unemployment offices require extra security as tempers flare. While on the floors of Congress Mitch McConnell leads the Republican charge to delay or deny unemployment benefits to the poorest of the jobless.
Check out the article and excellent video from Louisville TV Station WLKY:http://www.wlky.com/r/25948793/detail.html
The fact is he using the issue as a bargaining chip to extend the Bush tax cuts to the rich claiming this will put Kentuckians back to work.
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I guess you didn't catch that new study that finally concludes that raising the minimum wage actually costs low-income people jobs.
ReplyDeleteMinimum wage should be reduced if you want more jobs.
If lowering wages provided jobs States like Kentucky would be booming with prosperity.
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