Initial unemployment claims holding steady at higher level
(Calculated Risk)
After months of falling, first time claims for unemployment benefits have been on the rise for three consecutive weeks and are now running higher than at any time since the first week of January. For the week that ended April 21, se...
House passes payroll tax cut extension
The House passed the payroll tax cut extension this morning, 293-132 (91 Republicans and 41 Democrats opposed), then prepared to skip town for their week-long observance of Presidents' Day. The package lost support from some key Democratic members, in...
First-time jobless benefits claims fall again. Now at the lowest level since March 2008
(Via the Rachel Maddow blog)
Initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits fell to their lowest level in almost four years last week, the Department of Labor reported this morning. For the week ended Feb. 11, the seasonally adjusted claims were ...
House and Senate negotiators reach tentative agreement on payroll tax cut, other extensions
The GOP's concession on extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans apparently broke a log-jam. House and Senate negotiators had a deadline at the end of the month to extend the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and prevent a sharp c...
Republicans wage war on religion, oppose Catholic bishops on unemployment benefits
Republicans have spent so much effort winning over the vote of those 456 active and retired bishops in the United States, it would be a shame to let it all go to waste over this!
The Rev. Stephen E. Blaire, chairman of the bishop's Domestic Justice an...
Permanent Medicare ‘doc fix’ possible in payroll tax bill
A committee of 20 representatives and senators began meeting this week to hash out how to extend for the entire year some pretty critical economic measures: the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and a fix to the formula for reimbursements to doc...
The price of Republican intransigence? Three million could lose jobless benefits in 10 days
(Calculated Risk)
The astonishing (but not surprising) stubbornness of House Republicans to vote on a two-month extension of the payroll tax threatens to cut off some 3 million Americans from their unemployment benefit checks Jan. 1. Over the next fe...
House votes on payroll tax extension plan today
House Speaker John Boehner tees up his poison pills. (Reuters/Larry Downing)
The House will vote today on its plan for extending the payroll tax cut, unemployment benefits, and the "doc fix," avoiding a 27 percent cut on reimbursements to physicians...
No job-creation plan yet from Republicans, but they DO have a plan for the jobless. Call it pffffft!
More than 6.5 million Americans of the 13.2 million officially out of work are receiving unemployment benefits under a state-federal program originating 75 years ago as part of the New Deal Republicans hated then and have not stopped hating or trying ...
Open Thread for Night Owls: Want your unemployment check? Pee into this cup
Our friend digby sez:
Next step in our Randian dystopia: stig[ma]tize the unemployed
So now they're going to "reform" unemployment. The first thing they say they'll do do is stop the millionaires from collecting it. I don't know how many millionaires ...
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