Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders

Re:Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders by reaperducer on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:57PM (#23160470)

...until unemployment insurance runs out. People like that don't understand that it's not forever.

Or worse, they run it out, go back to work, then there's another lock-down because infection rates go up. Now they're not eligible for unemployment at all because they haven't paid into the system for too long.

(At least that's how it works in the three states where I have experience filing for unemployment. I doubt that California lets people collect money forever.)

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Re:Update to L.A.'s stay-at-home orders by harambaebae69 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:17PM (#23186248)

There's likely to be a teary-eyed politician who goes up in front of Congress as unemployment benefits end and insists they be renewed because it's almost Christmas and how heartless must you be to take food out of an orphans mouth during the holiday season yada yada

There's a long history of this happening in the USA if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Good-Intentions-Entitlement...

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