Unemployment benefits are hard to get. That’s on purpose.

The Uncertain Hour

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Government, News

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Americans who are out of work don’t receive unemployment benefits. That’s by design. Today, we’ll look at the history of the United States’ unemployment insurance system, how this country defines “unemployment,”and why the program was never intended to cover everyone who’s not working.

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0:00.0	Hey, Peter.
0:01.0	Hey, Chrissy.
0:02.0	So, you just did an interview?
0:05.5	I did with a woman named Candace Gordon from Locust Grove, Georgia.
0:10.8	And she told me about this dream she has for what she wants to do with her life.
0:15.2	I want to sell sex toys.
0:17.6	What?
0:18.6	Yeah, sex toys.
0:19.6	You know how you go into hotel and it's got little vina machines and ice machine and
0:23.4	the vina machine has, you know, cheetos and snickered ballers and stuff.
0:26.6	Well, my vina machines, I'd have condoms and lube and, you know, little mini vibrators
0:33.2	and stuff like that in the vina machine.
0:35.6	Okay.
0:36.6	Not what I was expecting.
0:40.1	She is very unique.
0:42.1	And so this connects to unemployment insurance.
0:45.9	How exactly?
0:46.9	Because I know that's what we're supposed to be doing right now is an episode on unemployment
0:51.4	insurance.
0:52.4	I know.
0:53.4	I know.
0:54.5	The reason I originally called up Candace was because on Twitter, she was tweeting all
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