we'll follow the footsteps of those on their way and we'll ask for the right to leave or to stay

[primroseburrows]

Unemployment benefits harder to get on Cape Breton.

Okay, let me get this straight:

• 1)The unemployment rate is high, so people leave to get jobs. This makes the numbers go down.
  
  
• 2)When that happens, the number of hours required to work to be eligible for unemployment benefits goes UP.
  
  
• 3)When that happens, more people leave, so the rate goes down even more.
  
  
• 4)Go to step 2, lather, rinse, repeat.
  

Vicious cycle much, Canada?

I could be totally off, here. It happens.

And not that it's my place to say anything, because it's totally not. Erm?

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[lorem_ipsum]

But you see, if the numbers go down, it's *working*. That's how you can tell that the US's five-year lifetime limit on welfare is working.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

That's what's important, right? How it looks on paper. The fact that people are leaving in droves is incidental. How could I have been so silly?