[Magdalen] A Busy Day Plus

[ROGER STOKES]

Jim you sound in good form.

It is an important (but generally neglected) point that those on unemployment benefit need to be able to afford to update their skills to be employable again.  That is in the interests of everybody.

Roger




________________________________
 From: Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org 
Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2014 4:45 PM
Subject: [Magdalen] A Busy Day Plus
 

After a great lecture on Schumpeterian Growth Models at University of Scranton
Thursday night, 

    <huge snip>.

One (of several) takeaway of particular interest was his contention that
unemployment benefits in most cases should be far more generous for people who
need to go back to school and update their skills. Leaving people on their own
with just a check (and no matter how long the benefit) in an economically
changing world is terrible policy and guarantees further destruction of the
middle class and income inequality.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie