Not that they'll ever read it, but a study released by the Federal Reserve Division of Research and Statistics, Monetary Affairs blows a huge hole in one of the GOP's most enduring fictions about providing jobless Americans with unemployment benefits.You know the one about how providing extensions just serves to make the unemployed lazy. How it encourages them not to look for a job. and actually fosters unemployment. So cutting off their benefits will make them "get off their butts" and go find work, because they'll have no other choice. This is one of the GOP's greatest hits because it feeds into the (often race-based) biases of their constituents and justifies doing absolutely nothing to help those Americans. And nothing is what the GOP does best.But a new study by Regis Barnichon of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional in Barcelona and Andrew Figura of the Federal Reserve Board reveals that provision of long term unemployment benefits has no significant impact on whether a person continues to pursue employment:Read More.Source: Daily KOs/Dartagnan