Article “Businesses on hook to pay U.S. for unemployment benefits” states:
“Pennsylvania has borrowed $3.1 billion from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits…
“Employers will pay about $35 per worker more this year and an additional $21 per employee next year in state and federal taxes to repay the loans. Business owners say that adds up.
“They say that means they’ll think twice about whether they can afford to hire employees or give workers raises…”
WATCHDOG: $35 per worker per year is a drop of the bucket compared to rising health care costs. It isn’t unemployment benefits that prevent the hiring of workers; it’s the exorbitant (as much as $3 per hour) cost of health care under an inferior health care system that costs almost twice as much as other advanced nations and uniquely places the load on businesses. “Medicare for everyone.”
