Government
Dec. 12, 2011
Obama’s job bill: Keep the carrots, drop the stick
Giving the unemployed protected class status will cause more problems than it solves. By Janice P. Brown and Suzanne K. Roten of Brown Law Group
How best to incentivize employers to hire the chronically unemployed is clearly a question posed by President Barack Obama's job bill, which is currently being considered by Congress. The "Fair Employment Opportunity Act of 2011" has the laudable purpose of curtailing a disturbing hiring practice that is becoming more and more common: Many businesses are now refusing outright to even consider the unemployed fo...
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