Businesses Hiring Fewer Workers Thanks To Expanded Unemployment Benefits In Stimulus Bill
Throughout critics such as myself have pointed out that making it easier to be unemployed at the expense of the people who we want to be doing the hiring was hardly a way to fix unemployment. And it turns out we were right: WASHINGTON – As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. Employers already are squeezed by tight credit, rising health care costs, wary consumers and a higher minimum wage. Now, the surging jobless rate is imposing another cost. It’s forcing higher state taxes on companies...
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Tags: Consumers, Financial Burden, Health Care Costs, Jobless Rate, Minimum Wage, reason, Rising Health Care, Rising Health Care Costs, Small Businesses, State Taxes, Stimulus Bill, Tight Credit, Unemployment Benefits