The role of unemployment insurance

Article Abstract:

Newfoundland's small villages, dependent on the cyclical fishing and fish processing industries, are adept at using unemployment insurance (UI) to supplement incomes in a de facto income social security system. Community members make good use of collective support, declining jobs to allow neighbors to take jobs to qualify for UI. Community self-help, by providing a wide range of inexpensive services, keeps the cost of living low, enabling the communities to enjoy a standard of living higher than their cash incomes suggest. The negative result of this system is that it stifles initiative: the UI system, by penalizing self-employment and small businesses, discourages entrepreneurship, thus adding to economic stagnation. Workers in Newfoundland will not undertake business ventures unless guaranteed a good income nor will they take on casual or part-time jobs that threaten their UI eligibility.

Economic aspects, Fisheries, Unemployment insurance, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland

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Fisherman's friend: construction worker helps hammer out a better life for a beleaguered community

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Construction subcontractor and fishing community advocate Jonathan Gray has long helped his friends in Hong Kong fight for their rights in a variety of ways. Always passionate about fishing and fishermen, he has helped them resist official oppression, abuse by the police, and other injustices. He also opened the first fishermen's club, creating a school for the community's stigmatized children in the process. Now he wants to help them own land and be recognized as skilled workers, and to rebuild the fleets that now dwindle.

Appreciation, Hong Kong, Personalities, Fishers (Persons), Gray, Jonathan

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