{"id":4770,"date":"2011-03-04T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:04:52","slug":"scenario-15-unemployment-rate-reliefs-only-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/scenario-15-unemployment-rate-reliefs-only-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"scenario 15: a slim possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4771\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/scenario-15-unemployment-rate-reliefs-only-hope\/sculpt-5-starr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sculpt-5-starr1.jpg?fit=484%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"484,700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sculpt-5-starr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sculpt-5-starr1.jpg?fit=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sculpt-5-starr1.jpg?fit=484%2C700&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4771\" title=\"sculpt-5-starr\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sculpt-5-starr1.jpg?resize=174%2C252\" alt=\"sculpt-5-starr\" width=\"174\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sculpt-5-starr1.jpg?w=484&amp;ssl=1 484w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/sculpt-5-starr1.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you know, the Labor Commerce &amp; Industry Committee has been looking at adjustments to the unemployment rates for a few weeks. After six subcommittee meetings and 18 proposals, we finally found a plan that may, and I stress may, garner enough support.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, March 3, The LCI subcommittee adopted a plan, commonly referred to as plan 15, that was authored by representatives from the staffing industry to cut the top rates by 18% and extend the loan repayments. I hope that we will be able to move forward and produce relief as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>There is one negative aspect in plan 15, however, that gives me concern as to if the General Assembly will support it. Plan 15 extends the debt repayment a full year. This extension leaves us in a very vulnerable situation in 2016. History tells us that the economy usually sees a downturn every 7 years. Many of my colleagues are hesitant to support plan 15 because of this vulnerability, so its adoption is questionable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, the Labor Commerce &amp; Industry Committee has been looking at adjustments to the unemployment rates for a few weeks. After six subcommittee meetings and 18 proposals, we finally found a plan that may, and I stress may, garner enough support. On Thursday, March 3, The LCI subcommittee adopted a plan, commonly referred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-4770","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\/p2gEQ0-1eW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","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=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}