{"id":2543,"date":"2009-10-22T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2009-10-22T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:02:14","slug":"state-pays-millions-to-fired-jobless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/state-pays-millions-to-fired-jobless\/","title":{"rendered":"State pays millions to fired jobless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we can thank our friends across the river to report on a huge problem with unemployment benefits: that employees can draw benefits when they are fired. This just doesn&#8217;t compute with me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/stories\/2009\/10\/21\/bus_552667.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Augusta Chronicle<\/a> &#8211; COLUMBIA &#8212; Nearly one-quarter of unemployed South Carolinians who file for jobless benefits are out of work because of their own misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Of that group, 56 percent succeeded in getting unemployment benefits, said Rebecca Gunnlaugsson, the economist for the South Carolina Department of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Data she presented during a forum Tuesday showed 22.8 percent of the unemployed were out of a job because of misbehavior, 10.1 percent had quit and 34.2 percent had been laid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we can thank our friends across the river to report on a huge problem with unemployment benefits: that employees can draw benefits when they are fired. This just doesn&#8217;t compute with me. The Augusta Chronicle &#8211; COLUMBIA &#8212; Nearly one-quarter of unemployed South Carolinians who file for jobless benefits are out of work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-F1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}