Workers who are on furloughs one week a month are eligible to collect unemployment for that week

President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence "manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States," but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds is putting workers on furlough before a single battery has been produced Workers at the Compact Power manufacturing facilities in Holland, Mich., run ... (more)

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Well of course, they're favorites ob the Obama Admin.