Morning Must-Read: Tim Noah: GOP’s Tough Love Isn’t Inspiring the Unemployed

Tim Noah: GOP’s tough love isn’t inspiring the unemployed: “A common conservative argument against any program to help jobless people is that it will discourage those people from seeking work….

The… UI extensions expired at the end of 2013. And so far, there’s been no visible effect…. In sum, the GOP’s tough-love stimulus of allowing long-term UI benefits to expire has produced no detectable effect on employment, or improvement of any other kind, for the long-term unemployed. We can allow this cruel experiment to continue, but the only group likely to benefit would be congressional Democrats eager to use UI benefit cancellation against the Republicans in the next midterm election. A better solution would be to restore long-term UI benefits to the two million people (including 200,000 veterans) who’ve lost them.