The Unemployed Are Taxing The System

From The Plain Dealer;

When the recession officially began in December 2007, Ohio's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.8 percent. In July, the state's unemployment rate was 11.2 percent. Those figures don't take into account furloughs, reduced hours and pay cuts, all factors that push many of these families out of the middle class.

"As the recession lingers, we see an uptick in public assistance programs," said Michael Schramm, associate director for community information at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at Case Western Reserve University.

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