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Blogger Loses Unemployment Check Because of Ads

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-for-an-injection-of-common-sense dept.

Techdirt is reporting that one unfortunate, unemployed New York lawyer recently had her unemployment benefits greatly reduced because of the incredible $1/day she was earning via ads on her blog. "The whole thing sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare, with NY State asking her to get a form from her new 'employer' who didn't exist. Then NY Department of Labor started giving her all sorts of contradicting information, and eventually an 'investigation' into her 'business' — during which time her unemployment benefits were stopped entirely. She's now pulled the Google AdSense from her blog (total earned over the life of the blog $238.75)."

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  1. wouldn't a negative income tax solve this problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i mean, it looks like it work,

    you get a base salary no matter what, which is pegged to the poverty line.

  2. Re:An unemployed LAWYER was perhaps.... by Xiterion · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm quite happy to have a world with less computer programmers. The profession itself is evidence that computer programming is too complex. If a computer program is written in such a fashion that the average citizen cannot understand it, let alone defend themselves from malware by applying patches and recompiling it, liberty is damaged.