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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: UI Benfits Cut
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.161915.3763@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1992Dec3.151011.12766@nttor.uucp> <1992Dec4.200018.3083@mdivax1.uucp> <BzM0As.JLy@mach1.wlu.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:19:15 GMT
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- In article <BzM0As.JLy@mach1.wlu.ca> dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F) writes:
- >It is to help the single-earner family that suffers a
- >calamatous period of unemployment so they will have food and shelter. What
- >it has become is a tool for people to get a living without working.
-
- I was under the impression that the welfare system was the one designed
- to provide food and shelter to those not otherwise possessing
- enough assets or income to purchase same.
-
- The UI system was established to share the risk of loss of
- employment. This allowed working individuals to avoid having to
- save sufficient funds to effectively insure themselves.
- Their risk of a drop in standard of living decreased.
- They were less likely to encounter mortgage difficulties.
-
- The transformation of UI into an alternative welfare system
- strikes me as a major policy problem.
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