but we’re probably beyond the point where you need 99 weeks, although that should vary from state to state.” Unemployment extensions beyond 26 weeks began during the Great Recession. In 2008, Cong...
CLEVELAND -- As Congress and the President discuss financial priorities, there's an urgent debate about whether to keep extending unemployment benefits. 134,000 Ohioans are now collecting unemployment...
WASHINGTON — Hovering in the background of the "fiscal cliff" debate is the prospect of 2 million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas. "This is the real cliff," said ...
The jobless will collect their last unemployment benefits this week unless Congress acts. NEW YORK (CNNMoney ... The law expires on Wednesday. An extension is part of a package to address the fiscal c...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that an extension ... weeks, from 99 (although some states, such as New York, ultimately still offered a combination of benefits totaling 99 weeks for t...
Two million people could lose unemployment benefits over the holidays ... unprecedented response to the Great Recession. Federal benefits were extended to a record 99 weeks in November 2009. That safe...
Even as the U.S. job market remains weak, more than a dozen states have cut unemployment benefits over the past couple of ... Some states, such as Oregon and New Jersey, impose taxes on more than $30,...
While unemployment duration remains near historical highs, the characteristics of the long-term unemployed and their recent job-finding rates suggest that a sustained cyclical recovery ... whose durat...
but we’re probably beyond the point where you need 99 weeks, although that should vary from state to state.” Unemployment extensions beyond 26 weeks began during the Great Recession. In 2008, Cong...
CLEVELAND -- As Congress and the President discuss financial priorities, there's an urgent debate about whether to keep extending unemployment benefits. 134,000 Ohioans are now collecting unemployment...
WASHINGTON — Hovering in the background of the "fiscal cliff" debate is the prospect of 2 million people losing their unemployment benefits four days after Christmas. "This is the real cliff," said ...
The jobless will collect their last unemployment benefits this week unless Congress acts. NEW YORK (CNNMoney ... The law expires on Wednesday. An extension is part of a package to address the fiscal c...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that an extension ... weeks, from 99 (although some states, such as New York, ultimately still offered a combination of benefits totaling 99 weeks for t...
Two million people could lose unemployment benefits over the holidays ... unprecedented response to the Great Recession. Federal benefits were extended to a record 99 weeks in November 2009. That safe...
Even as the U.S. job market remains weak, more than a dozen states have cut unemployment benefits over the past couple of ... Some states, such as Oregon and New Jersey, impose taxes on more than $30,...
While unemployment duration remains near historical highs, the characteristics of the long-term unemployed and their recent job-finding rates suggest that a sustained cyclical recovery ... whose durat...
The government's program for disability benefits for federal workers is rife with waste and abuse, according to a three part series in the Washington Examiner. The series documents many cases of appar...
Both California and Florida have high Latino population. Florida’s high Latin population comes from Cuban-Americans and Rep Mario Diaz-BalartPuerto Ricans while California has a strong Mexican-Ameri...
Daniel Sanabria, a technician in his 20s, stood nearby cradling his arm, an ice pack on top of a bloody bandage. He peeled it off to reveal ... small -- surrounded by mountains, an hour's flight north...
B enefits.gov describes its mission as: Benefits.gov (formerly GovBenefits.gov) was launched in an effort to provide citizens with easy, online access to government benefit and assistance programs. Ei...
A farmer, Kasim, with diabetes fled war in Ethiopia and settled in Winnipeg. He will now be getting insulin help from the provincial government to cover the cost of his treatment. Last year, the gover...
He reported another $10,132 in retirement benefits last year from the Employees Retirement ... Cornyn, unlike Perry, is drawing his pensions and salary from different levels of government. His salary ...
The food bank at Meet Each Need with Dignity in Pacoima was bustling on a recent day with people reaching for donated fruits, vegetables, juice and other goods. And yet, when a volunteer grabbed a mic...
The Great Recession left many families in need of greater economic security. Although federal programs provide some safety net, the states supply much of the security. A new report rated Washington as...
At the end of 2011, Congress allowed unemployment beneficiaries to continue to collect under both the emergency and extended programs, which permit the unemployed to receive benefits for up to 99 week...
Tangled in the current Washington debate over extending the payroll tax is another thorny, but less prominent, policy issue: whether to also renew extended ... checks for up to 99 weeks in states with...
“If you just reduce the weeks of unemployment for people already ... Nationwide, most people apply for benefits by phone. Last August, Florida began requiring people to apply online and to complete ...
At the end of December, Congress will determine whether to continue extending unemployment benefits beyond 26 ... provide up to 26 weeks' worth of unemployment benefits, and the federal government has...
Democrats on Thursday unveiled a proposal to shorten the duration of aid to 93 weeks from 99 weeks. But Republicans reacted ... week he would develop his own package–including an extension of a popu...
2,153,700: The number of jobless people currently receiving unemployment benefits who will lose them by Feb. 11, 2012 if an extension ... week — seeks to keep it going through 2012. The proposal doe...
Their version of the unemployment extension ... their 99 weeks.” Congress and the president have purposely ignored the millions of 99ers for political reasons. Politicians such as Sen. Debbie Staben...
On their way to a championship in Tampa, the Bucs did damage beyond the first ... a mutually acceptable extension. While Revis’ prowess is unquestioned, he is attempting to return to All-World form ...
Going even beyond that, Congress added the Extended Benefits (EB) program, which provides an additional 20 weeks of benefits--for a total of 99 ... Hill's On The Money blog reported that Moody's chief...
But, it’s strikingly true as we learn more in an op-ed in Monday’s NY ... blog, tonight… A CERTAIN drama has become familiar in the United States (and some other advanced industrialized countrie...
