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Governor Rick Scott may have just won the race to the bottom
The jobless are screwed in Florida. Governor Rick Scott may have just won the race to the bottom when it comes to unemployment insurance. Scott – one of America’s most disliked Governors – signed into law yesterday a huge reduction in Florida’s unemployment benefit system – cutting the number of weeks someone is eligible to collect unemployment from 26 down to just 12. The cut falls in line with Governor Scott’s promise to corporations to lower their unemployment tax payments by $630 million. So again – screw over poor people to give rich businessmen tax cuts.
The National Employment Law Project says Scott’s unemployment cuts, “go further than any other state in dismantling its unemployment insurance system.” Currently – Florida has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation at 10.6%. And, as we’ve seen elsewhere around the country – when Republican Governors cut programs that keep the poor and middle-class above water – then economies shrink.
So expect the already high unemployment rate in Florida to get even higher, and cost the state even more in unemployment insurance.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Bring back our jobs!! (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Bring back our jobs!! Congressman Jerrold Nadler, (D-NY, 8th District).
Screwed: Greece is the word... Max Fraad Wolff, Financial Economist & Professor of Economics 
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TX Gov Rick Perry...Koch Brothers' new poster boy? with Jim Hightower
Daily Take: Does the Scott administration want to privatize camping in state parks?
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." -- James Madison.
Hour One: Did the Supreme Court just kill public financing of elections? Vic Berardelli, Republican Liberty Caucus.
Did the Supreme Court just kill public financing of elections? Craig Holman, Public Citizen
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
Hour Two: Why do conservatives paint all of Islam with the same extremist paint brush? A.W.R. Hawkins, PhD, Columnist-Pajamas Media.
Hour Three: 9/11 was 10 years ago, Bin Laden is dead, isn't it time to end "The Longest War?" Peter Bergen, Author, "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda"
Latest on the war on democracy - Ohioans fight back against anti-union law Cliff Schecter, Progressive PR consultant
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Thom's Poll
After a decade of war & spending more than $3.7 trillion on war in the Middle East – will we ever declare victory & come home?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Thom Hartmann: Did the Supreme Court just kill public financing of elections?
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Thom Hartmann performs an Exorcism on the GOP - Really!
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Thom Hartmann on the News - June 29, 2011
Thom Hartmann: Cliff Schecter Interview
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