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kleinbl00 · 3703 days ago · link · · parent · post: Welfare Reform in the US. What, if anything is needed?
You're talking about two things: taxpayer-funded initiatives and employer-funded initiatives. Unemployment insurance is employer-funded. Your letter demonstrates only that you didn't pay into the system enough to withdraw from the system - no money was paid on your behalf, so no money can be withdrawn on your behalf. Your lover's health insurance, however, is taxpayer-funded and is based on demonstrated need. It surprises me not a whit that "demonstrated need" in Texas is an utter and total quagmire. I recognize that they both go into your pocket but the question of whose pocket they come out of is the question that keeps all this shit complicated and ornery.