Posts Tagged ‘ Unemployment benefits ’

UPDATED: The Benefits Are Restored, But At What Cost?

July 21, 2010
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UPDATED: The Benefits Are Restored, But At What Cost?

[picapp align="none" wrap="false" link="term=unemployment+benefits&iid=9380600" src="http://view4.picapp.com/pictures.photo/image/9380600/president-obama-speaks/president-obama-speaks.jpg?size=500&imageId=9380600" width="380" height="273" /] Update is below Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over.  Today, unemployment benefits are on the verge of finally being reauthorized after nearly two months of the nation’s unemployed having nothing to rely on other than whatever savings they might have had left.  Technically, the benefits…

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Playing With Fire

July 9, 2010
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Playing With Fire

Ah, another Congressional recess without addressing the unemployment benefits crisis.  According to the Huffington Post’s count, it’s now been 37 days since the impending specter of that final benefit check was hung over the collective heads of the millions of unemployed Americans.  I hate to say it, but it doesn’t look like it will be…

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Congressional Dems, It’s Time to Stand Up to the GOP

July 2, 2010
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Congressional Dems, It’s Time to Stand Up to the GOP

A brief note before jumping into this week’s post: I love writing the longer posts, though they take so much time to do the way I would like to do them that one or two of them a week is about all I could do with the longer ones.  Therefore, I will be putting more…

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Brief Thoughts: The Deficit Needs to be Dealt With, but So Does Unemployment

May 29, 2010
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Brief Thoughts: The Deficit Needs to be Dealt With, but So Does Unemployment

Today, we saw a repeat of what happened the last few months with regard to the special extensions to unemployment benefits; on Tuesday, millions of Americans will, once again, see an interruption in their unemployment checks thanks to Congress balking at extending the measures that were intended to only be temporary. At least this time,…

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The Filibuster Showdown

March 2, 2010
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The Filibuster Showdown

[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Last week, we all got a wonderfully explicit view of Republican obstructionism.  No, I’m not talking about the marathon seven-hour healthcare summit in which the Republicans repeatedly stuck to their position of starting over rather than offer any constructive ideas for reform.  I am talking about Senator Jim Bunning’s (R-KY) lone objection…

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