- Stephen Gordon: Employment insurance isn't broke. So why fix it?
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If asked, people might say something along the lines of this Toronto Star editorial:
The rolls of the unemployed in Canada continue to grow... Many or most of them won't be eligible for employment insurance (EI), due to the program's Byzantine eligibility requirements.
Very alarming - especially that word "most". But how do we know that a large fraction - let alone "most" - of the newly-unemployed are in fact not eligible for EI? Isn't that something we'd like to know?
I know it's something I'd like to know, so I decided to do some digging. It turns out that the EI system is holding up pretty well - in fact, much better than one might have expected.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
If You Are Working Regularly and On The Books You Are eligible
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- Unhypentated Canadian
- I lean to the right but I still have a heart and if I have a mission it is to respond to attacks on people not available to protect themselves and to point out the hypocrisy of the left at every opportunity.MY MAJOR GOAL IS HIGHLIGHT THE HYPOCRISY AND STUPIDITY OF THE LEFTISTS ON TORONTO CITY COUNCIL. Last word: In the final analysis this blog is a relief valve for my rants/raves.
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