Showing posts with label unemployment benefits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment benefits. Show all posts
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Dollar Weakens After Unemployment Claims Rise

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Applications for unemployment benefits rose from 27,000 to 412,000 last week, right before the dollar fell against most major currencies. ...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Jobless Benefits Cost so Far: $319 Billion

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According to a CNN Money analysis of federal records, unemployed Americans have collected $319 billion in unemployment benefits since the ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Jobless Claims Hit Half A Million

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In a disappointing turn of events, the number of people applying for unemployment benefits hit half a million last week. The represents th...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

New Claims for Unemployment Aid Reach 484K

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Last week, claims for unemployment benefits rose to the highest point in over 5 months. Although a drop was anticipated, instead claims ro...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Labor Dept. Estimates $7.1 Billion in Overpayments to Unemployed

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Although headlines are focusing on the thousands of Americans that are losing, or have lost their unemployment benefits, the U.S. Labor De...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

1.3 million Unemployed won't get benefits restored

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Bad news for the millions of unemployed people across the nation. Congress failed to reach any agreement on unemployment benefits extensions...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Senate Combines Jobless Benefits, Homebuyer Credit

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While still recovering from a failed attempt to extend unemployment benefits last week, Senate Democrats are working on a new bill that wo...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Unemployment Benefits Extension Nixed for Nearly 1 Million

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According to CNN Money, over a million Americans have lost their unemployment benefits as Senators failed to pass an extension last Thursd...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Democrats' Tax Bill Moves Toward Vote In US Senate

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The Senate is scheduled to vote on the new tax bill designed to extend unemployment insurance tomorrow. In order for the bill to pass, 60 ...

The Unemployed Held Hostage

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From NYTimes.com: Since June 1, when federal unemployment benefits began to expire, an estimated 325,000 jobless workers have been cut o...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

House to Vote on Tax Bill as Net Cost Drops to $60.5 Billion

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From the Wall Street Journal: The latest version of House legislation to extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits would add $60.5 billio...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

More Than a Million May Lose Jobless Aid Due to Deficit Concern

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From Bloomberg.com: Since the U.S. recession began in December 2007, Congress has extended the duration of weekly unemployment benefits ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

More Than 200,000 Jobless Counting On An Extension

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A million Americans could lose their unemployment benefits this month if the Senate does not act quickly to extend the benefits, as well a...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Unemployment Benefits, Canceled Debt Trigger Tax Bills

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The last thing most of us want to think of in this economy is an unexpected tax bill. However, as Sandra Block of USA Today explains, fina...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Some Relief for the Nation's Unemployed

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Recent reports seem to indicate that while the economy may find its way out of the current recession and job growth is on the horizon ( See ...