"Ed Huntress" wrote:

That's the dilemma. NYC has always been a magnet that sucks in the people
who have been cast off by other parts of the country. So now it's costing
them, at a time when no city can afford it.


Back in the late seventies just prior to discharge, a group of us short timers were
assembled to listen to a lady from the South Carolina unemployment office who showed us a
chart of what the various states paid in unemployment.

The northern states paid a lot more than South Carolina.

Wes