Take your 2012 employment litigation budget and add 50%

If the government can't bribe or cajole employers into hiring, they have another idea . . .

Threaten them.

President Obama has proposed legislation that will prohibit discrimination In hiring against the unemployed just as it prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin and age.

Net-net: Plaintiffs' lawyers full employment act. Anyone unemployed who identifies himself as unemployed and who does. Ot get a job can file a charge which you will be required to defend.

More can be found here at the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/us/politics/obama-proposes-adding-unemployed-to-protected-status.html?pagewanted=print