News from Brownbackistan: Brownback approves changes to unemployment insurance, benefits

[deminks]

http://cjonline.com/news/2015-05-18/brownback-approves-changes-unemployment-insurance-benefits

People engaged in partisan politics will now be able to administer Kansas’ unemployment insurance system, under legislation approved Monday by Gov. Sam Brownback, who said the new law will help bring growth and opportunity.

Opponents of the legislation said the new law will limit the maximum weekly unemployment benefit to workers and decreases employer contributions to the unemployment insurance trust fund.

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Current law sets a weekly cap on unemployment benefits at 60 percent of the employee’s average weekly wages, with a maximum of $474. The new law calculates the maximum weekly benefit at 55 percent of the average weekly wages or $474, whichever is higher.

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“In doing so, it prioritizes the interests of big business over the needs of middle class and working families,” several Democratic lawmakers said in a statement at the time of the vote in April.

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Another assault on the people for the sake of big bizniz.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. 3 out of 4 on unemployment in Kansas who will be harmed by this will vote to reelect this

terrorist.

[sketchy]

2. At least one Kansas mathematician isn't convinced the election can be trusted

Beth Clarkson.

link:
http://www.salina.com/opinion/editorials/this-isn-t-a-mirage/article_37b79a70-f76a-5615-a9c9-229c7111dedb.html


from the 4/27/15 article:

"Secretary of State Kris Kobach has built his political career promising gullible Kansas voters that voter fraud is a problem and he’s just the guy to stop it."

"So it is amazing to us that when a Wichita mathematician found statistical anomalies in voting patterns in the last Kansas general election results, Kobach refused her request for paper tapes from electronic voting machines.

Beth Clarkson, who has a Ph.D. in statistics, has analyzed election returns in Kansas and elsewhere over several elections and found a “statistically significant” pattern in which the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.

The patterns show either a built-in error in the Kansas voting system, or broad-scale fraud, or are “indicating a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling.” (Remember the polls showing Davis winning the governor race?)"

more at link

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Of course, this has gotten near zero media coverage.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

3. Republicans steal votes in every election , period, EVERY election. How many depends on

shit like this.

AMAZING this is, and NO news coverage

of course not

We are being laughed at by these criminals.

[sketchy]

4. kick

[hifiguy]

5. How long until Kansas collapses in a smoking ruin?

One year? Two?