Oh yeah, people would rather sit around & live the high life on unemployment rather

[PA Democrat]

than look for a job. Here is a reality check for the cretins spouting such nonsense.

The average unemployment check covers only 36% of lost wages.

How many people can afford to put off looking for a job while only bringing in 36% of their former salaries? And in some states it's even worse.

Mississippi's maximum is a generous $210 a well, Alabama's max is a whopping $235 a week.

Oh yeah, those unemployed people are living a life of luxury on THOSE amounts.




FYI, here's a chart of unemployment compensation maximum weekly payments by state:

Alabama – $235

Alaska – $320

Arizona – $240

Arkansas – $409

California – $450

Colorado – $455

Connecticut – $576

Delaware – $330

District of Columbia – $359

Florida – $275

Georgia – $320

Hawaii – $523

Idaho – $364

Illinois – $511

Indiana – $390

Iowa – $426

Kansas – $407

Kentucky – $415

Louisiana – $258

Maine – $496

Maryland – $380

Massachusetts – $628

Michigan – $362

Minnesota – $538

Mississippi – $210

Missouri – $320

Montana – $386

Nebraska – $298

Nevada – $362

New Hampshire – $427

New Jersey – $560

New Mexico – $455

New York – $405

North Carolina – $476

North Dakota – $385

Ohio – $493

Oklahoma – $392

Oregon – $463

Pennsylvania – $547

Puerto Rico – $133

Rhode Island – $641

South Carolina – $326

South Dakota – $285

Tennessee – $275

Texas – $378

Utah – $427

Vermont – $409

Virginia _$363

Virgin Islands – $454

Washington – $515

West Virginia – $408

Wisconsin – $355

Wyoming – $387

http://credit-blog.creditfyi.com/personal-finances/state-unemployment-benefits-for-2009.html:sarcasm:

[Saphire]

1. Yes, these are the MAXIMUM payments...if you work for min. wage

already you'd be lucky to get half that.

Perhaps you'd be able to eat Premium cat food.

[JuniperLea]

5. Open a can of pate, Chicken!

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I know when I was unemployed it was champagne and caviar all day long!

I even invested the surplus every week and became independently wealthy, so that I'd never have to work again!

[PA Democrat]

6. I'm waiting to hear Republicans call the unemployed called "lucky ducks"

[Toucano]

15. See, you're smart. I spent my surplus on imported chocolates, liquor

prostitutes and drugs.

It's the hobo life for me!

[hobbit709]

3. Unless the fact is applied with a 2X4

It will never penetrate that block of ultra dense material known as the skulls of said cretins.

[Subdivisions]

4. Texas has gone down. I remember getting $476 (I qualified for max) back

during the recession in the early '00s.

[Historic NY]

7. Lucky RI & Mass people....641 & 628 per week.....damn Yankees.......

:sarcasm:

[RC]

8. And not only that, you pay income taxes on it

[Nikia]

9. In WI, you can defer your taxes

At the time that my husband was getting unemployment, we thought that this was a great idea since we needed the extra money. It turned out not to be such a great idea when tax time came around.

[leftstreet]

10. This is so sad. They're making the unemployed the new 'welfare queens'

It worked so well for Raygun, the Predator Class sent out the memo to do it all over again

:puke:

[blue neen]

11. Yeah, ol' Tom Corbett sure put his foot in his mouth this time, didn't he?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/13/tom-corbett-says-the-unem_n_644379.html

I sure hope Dan Onorato jumps all over this one!

[reggie the dog]

12. Here in France you get 75% of your former salary

for as long as you had worked with a maximum of 5 years of benefits

[cutlassmama]

14. and France has better healthcare than America too. You're lucky.

[Rincewind]

13. I don't know about the other states,

but in Illinois, that $511 maximum is with the dependent allowance. For a single person, the max is $385 a week, and to get either maximum, you need to make at least $820 a week for six months.