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City Paper forced to adjust last week's HEITC? score
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City Paper forced to adjust last week's HEITC? score
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| Evan Lopez |
We're a little late on this piece of news, but for those of you following the How Evil is Tom Corbett? Barometer at home, we figured we had to add it to the tally. As you all know, GOP gubernatorial nom Corbett made quite the gaffe earlier this month, channeling The Big Lebowski: "People don't want to come back to work while they still have unemployment. ... The jobs are there, but if we keep extending unemployment, people are going to sit there and ... I've literally had construction companies tell me, 'I can't get people to come back to work, until' ... they say, 'I'll come back to work when unemployment runs out.'"
It turns out that Corbett's story is not quite true. According to Capitolwire:
Kevin Silva, a senior vice president with the Warrell Corporation of Camp Hill, Cumberland County, said the company had been told by one applicant for a machine operator's position that, after factoring in travel costs, that he could make more money while receiving unemployment benefits.
Silva told Capitolwire that he did not know where the applicant lived. The position pays between $11 and $15 an hour, plus benefits.
Silva said the company did hire 50 foreign college students for seasonal work, not full-time positions, as Corbett told the online news service last week.
Kevin Silva, a senior vice president with the Warrell Corporation of Camp Hill, Cumberland County, said the company had been told by one applicant for a machine operator's position that, after factoring in travel costs, that he could make more money while receiving unemployment benefits.
Silva told Capitolwire that he did not know where the applicant lived. The position pays between $11 and $15 an hour, plus benefits.
Silva said the company did hire 50 foreign college students for seasonal work, not full-time positions, as Corbett told the online news service last week.
Therefore, Mr. Corbett, we adjust last week's HEITCB? score of 20 (on a scale of 0 to 23), which you received for your jobless gaffe, to 22, for fudging the truth. A score of 22, on a scale 0 to 23! Shit. Even we expected more of you.
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