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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (50970)	2/29/2008 12:42:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 542688

People who agree with the original blog post are those who see things their way without any serious consideration for the plight of those who lose their jobs. My experience with unemployment is that we lived on and off it for most of my childhood. It was my understanding that benefits were paid out of a big pool of tax collections. Upon scanning the California law, it seems that each employer pays the benefits for its own former employees out of its own reserve fund. That doesn't make sense to me. If, for example, an employer is in distress and has to lay off employees, it has to lay off more if it is required to effectively keep paying those laid off a fourth or third of their salaries. They supposedly call this "insurance" for a reason, that reason being is that risks are shared and moneys are pooled. The pool should probably be the whole state. Seems to be that bitching about that aspect of California's program may be warranted. It doesn't mean lack of support for unemployment insurance, in general.

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