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Unemployment-Insurance Reform Urged

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“The nation’s unemployment insurance system, which has hardly changed since its inception in 1935, should be revamped to aid more workers displaced by a transforming economy, economists said this week as they released overhaul proposals.” (New York Times [1], Thursday)

The real solution? Get government out of the insurance business.

FEE Timely Classic
“It’s Time to Privatize Unemployment Insurance” [2] by David Honigman and George C. Leef


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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/washington/14unemploy.html?ref=washington

[2] “It’s Time to Privatize Unemployment Insurance”: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=4495

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