Decisions

There are things some of us have the power to choose.

Gov. John Bel Edwards is requiring unemployed workers once again to apply for jobs each week as a condition for receiving jobless benefits – at a time when almost 1 in every 4 workers in Louisiana is collecting unemployment pay.

The governor’s decision comes just days after some 450,000 out-of-work residents in Louisiana lost their eligibility to receive a $600 weekly supplemental payment from the federal government that expired on July 31.

Of course we argue slapping the work search requirement back on is just insult added to the injury of having the $600 expire. But why do that when we can choose not to?