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Limbaugh: “Common Sense Tells Us” That Unemployment Benefits Incentivize People Not To Work

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 08/30/11 1:00 PM EDT

From the August 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Video file

Previously:

Right-wing media renew assault on unemployment insurance

Rush: It's “Good” In “Most Ways” That States Are Cutting Unemployment Because It Will “Force People To Try To Go Find Work”

Limbaugh: “Extended unemployment benefits do nothing but incentivize people not to look for work”

Limbaugh: “Do You Know Any Low-Income People Who Want To Get A Better Job? ... Do They Even Want To Work?”

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