Listeners respond: does unemployment insurance make us lazy?

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We’re talking about unemployment all week and asking listeners to share this conversation with us. Some of you are waiting anxiously for unemployment insurance to be extended, while others say that perhaps too many out-of-work people are relying on the government instead of finding a job.

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