THE NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE - Again, we are glad that Gov. Edwards isn’t at all being swayed by big business and their lobbies to force people off unemployment or to prematurely end the enhanced benefits. To be sure, if a jobless person can now collect more money or at least as much while unemployment than they do working 30 or 40 hours a week, the problem is not with workers, but with wages.| By The New Orleans Tribune At least 16 states, all of them led by Republican governors, are now opting out of the federal government’s supplemental unemployment program which adds an additional $300 a week to state benefits for unemployed workers as a part of continued efforts to help mitigate the economic hurt caused by the […]