Young Turks: New Jobs Plan = Unpaid Workers (Georgia Work$)

[CherylK]

Run time: 02:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aba8mnpuM   Posted on YouTube: September 07, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 21775   Posted on DU: September 08, 2011 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1399

 
A new bipartisan plan called Georgia Works has unemployed workers doing full time work for businesses on a temporary business with no pay - rather they simply continue receiving meager unemployment benefits. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains.

[Generic Other]

1. Sounds like a privatization scheme

The state sells its unemployed and companies can lo-ball the bid since they are receiving a mere pittance as it is. Wow. That takes some evil kind of mind to think up!

[Dragonfli]

2. You have it right except the part where the state gives away the slaves rather than sell them /nt

[gholtron]

3. Cenk

First thank you. I bet someone $5.00 that you would find Something to Bitch about this speech. You didn't dissappoint in fact you couldn't wait until to do it. Why don't you go work for Fox. You would be a great addition.

[CherylK]

4. ...

:puke: :eyes: :crazy: :wtf:

[AlbertCat]

5. Gholtron, why don't YOU go work for Fox...under the GA Works program

If the government doesn't have enough $$$ to pay for "entitlement programs", how does it have enough to pay for wage slavery?

[fasttense]

6. Ignore the blindly faithful around here Cenk

they can not think for themselves.

[ProSense]

7. Utter nonsense

Bridge To Work: Obama's Plan For Long-Term Unemployed

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Bridge to Work programs would be different from Georgia Works in several ways. Under the Obama proposal, states would be required to ensure participants earn no less than the minimum wage. So if a jobless worker's unemployment insurance benefit amounted to less than the minimum wage, states would have to boost the benefit.

Bridge to Work programs would only be open to jobless workers who've exhausted the standard 26 weeks of state-funded benefits and become eligible for the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which provides up to 53 additional weeks of aid. The EUC program is set to expire in January; the administration is pushing for Congress to reauthorize it through 2012 as part of the "American Jobs Act," which would include funding for Bridge to Work and dozens of other initiatives

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Money for states to administer Bridge to Work programs would come from a $4 billion "Reemployment NOW Fund" that would also support a range of reforms, including wage insurance, startup assistance, improved reemployment services, and work-sharing.

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Participants in the program will be covered by workers' compensation laws. As the FLSA requires, states will be required to prevent businesses from using trainees instead of hiring new workers, and businesses will not be able to use Bridge to Work participants if a strike is in effect or if doing so would violate a collective bargaining agreement.

[DeSwiss]

8. Anyone who trusts Obama now.....

...should be taking medication of some type. Whatever Big Pharma's got to help bring people back to reality.

- I only hope that this "jobs" plan of his, works out better than his "save people from foreclosure" plan......


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