A dozen state senators in North Carolina have introduced a bill that would require citizens who are collecting unemployment benefits to get back to work as volunteers.

Senate Bill 737, sponsored last month by Republican senators Warren Daniels, Dan Soucek and Andrew Brock would require unemployed citizens to volunteer five or 10 hours per week, depending on how long they have been collecting benefits.

Nonprofit organizations, religious entities and government or public organizations, such as libraries, schools or parks are some of the places where the unemployed could work as volunteers.

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