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Our Unemployment Insurance Addiction

By ⋅ July 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(FOX NEWS) - The extension of unemployment insurance benefits is expected to pass the Senate today. Despite President Obama’s attack on Republicans for delaying the bill, it could easily have passed a month ago if Democrats hadn’t added so many other unrelated radical measures to it — from higher taxes to [...]

Research Desk responds: Is unemployment insurance stimulative?

By ⋅ July 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(WASHNINGTON POST) - Patrick_M wants to know whether fellow commenter Kevin_Willis is right in stating:
“… there is no evidence that indefinite extension of unemployment benefits has much of an economically stimulative effect, that I know of.”
I actually touched on this a couple of weeks ago, when I highlighted Mark Zandi of Moody’s [...]

Unemployment Insurance May Run Out for Arkansans

By ⋅ April 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(KFSM) - People in our area that have been collecting unemployment insurance for a while could see those benefits run out on in a week.
Extended benefits from the federal government, which are provided after state benefits run out, are set to expire April 5. A planned extension passed by the House [...]

Unemployment Benefits to Expire Sunday After Senate Stalemates On Extension

By ⋅ February 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(FOX NEWS) - Unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits will expire Sunday for millions of voters because the Senate was unable this week to pass a short-term extension, a failure that reflects partly the partisan gridlock that has stalled the Democratic legislative agenda and partly the Senate rules that allows one lawmaker [...]

More than $74,000 in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims discovered in Southern Tier

By ⋅ January 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

(PRESS CONNECTS) - State labor officials on Monday said 19 people in the Southern Tier illegally took $74,191 from New York’s unemployment insurance trust fund.
Seven from Broome County were charged in the state investigation and are accused of taking $27,291, said New York Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith.
Others charged include four from Chemung County ($9,144); [...]

Editorial: California must avert unemployment insurance fund disaster

By ⋅ November 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(INSIDE BAY AREA) - CALIFORNIA’S 12.5 percent unemployment rate is the worst since 1940, at the end of the Great Depression. As a result, the state’s jobless benefit fund is heading for a fiscal crises unless the Legislature acts to prevent it.
During the robust economy earlier in the decade, the Legislature significantly increased unemployment benefits, [...]

O’Malley to pledge help on unemployment insurance

By ⋅ November 7, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(THE WASHINGTON POST) - Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) will promise Thursday night to work with business leaders to find a “more sustainable solution” to a state employment insurance system under which tax rates are tripling next year for many Maryland companies.
The pledge is included in the governor’s prepared remarks to a gathering of the Maryland [...]

Cap Wrap - Back to the Top 10 Rule & Unemployment Insurance

By ⋅ May 25, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(DALLAS NEWS) - The House is starting to get pretty crowded, bill-wise, with a long backlog of major state bills that have been postponed until now. First on the list is a bill addressing the top 10 percent law, a policy that grants automatic admission to public universities to seniors at the top of their [...]

Cap Wrap - Unemployment Insurance & Top 10 Percent

By ⋅ May 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(DALLAS NEWS) - The House has four bills on today’s major state calendar, including a Republican rebuke of Gov. Rick Perry’s rejection of $555 million in federal stimulus funds tied to unemployment insurance. Perry claimed the funds would force Texas to widen its policy toward unemployment insurance, and would apply even after the stimulus funds [...]

Senate should hold firm on jobless insurance bill

By ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

(The News Tribune) - The Legislature is sure to do something to fix the state’s unemployment insurance program in the coming days. The question is whether, in throwing a bone to labor, Democrats will sell out businesses.
Lawmakers were expected to deliver a one-two boost to jobless benefits this year. Workers got their share earlier this [...]

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