Good for Sen. Wyden. Is blocking unemployment benefits for those who can’t find a job in this awful economy a family value? What is wrong with Sen. Bunning?
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has vowed to prevent the Senate from extending any other expiring laws until it extends unemployment benefits and subsidized health insurance for laid off [...]
In the meantime, jobs that are available are paying less and less. Why? Because they can. Corporate America never misses an opportunity to take advantage of a good recession. Why pay a decent wage when so many people are desperate to make anything that keeps some food on the table, gas in the vehicle and [...]
Jobs should be priority number one for the administration and Congress. Health Care Reform won’t mean much if people still can’t afford any kind of health care because of a lack of a job.
WASHINGTON — President Obama presented a series of initiatives on Tuesday aimed at turning around the nation’s beleaguered job market, paying particular [...]
An extension of unemployment benefits would be good news to the millions still unemployed, but the creation of some jobs would be even better.
The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks nationwide, after lawmakers on Monday easily hopped the procedural hurdle bringing debate on the legislation [...]
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Each percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to a 1.1 million increase in the number of uninsured creating a health care crisis for the country.
