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Permanent Medicare ‘doc fix’ possible in payroll tax bill

by Jed Lewison on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments
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...
Daily Kos / Politics

The price of Republican intransigence? Three million could lose jobless benefits in 10 days

by Jed Lewison on Dec 21, 2011 • No Comments
(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...
Daily Kos / Politics

House votes on payroll tax extension plan today

by Jed Lewison on Dec 13, 2011 • No Comments
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...
Daily Kos / Politics

No job-creation plan yet from Republicans, but they DO have a plan for the jobless. Call it pffffft!

by Jed Lewison on Dec 9, 2011 • No Comments
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 ...
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Open Thread for Night Owls: Want your unemployment check? Pee into this cup

by Jed Lewison on Dec 8, 2011 • No Comments
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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99ers and the Bum’s Rush

by Robert and Donna Trussell on Dec 30, 2010 • No Comments
Filed under: Humor, Chaos Theory, Unemployment, Jobs, EconomyPawn shop is across the street, by the way. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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Bipartisan Boogie

by Robert and Donna Trussell on Dec 26, 2010 • No Comments
Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Humor, Chaos TheoryLove is Strange. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Daily Kos / Politics

Hatch displays stunning lack of knowledge on unemployment insurance

by Daily Kos on Dec 21, 2010 • No Comments

Hopefully Orrin Hatch is reading the local, Capitol Hill news. Last week, he became one of the growing numbers of congresspeople who showed his vast ignorance on the topic of unemployment insurance.

WASHINGTON -- Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said this week that extended unemployment insurance "is well over 100 weeks now,"...

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Tax Cuts and Unemployment Benefits: It’s a Win-Win!

by Robert and Donna Trussell on Dec 17, 2010 • No Comments
Filed under: Humor, Taxes, Chaos Theory, UnemploymentThey'll gladly feed you Tuesday for a financial beating today. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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House Passes Bush Tax Cut Package; Bill Now Goes to President

by Patricia Murphy on Dec 16, 2010 • No Comments
Filed under: Senate, House, Democrats, Republicans, The Capitolist, CongressThe House voted 277 to 148 Thursday night to temporarily extend the Bush tax cuts, continue unemployment benefits for 13 months and approve a series of smaller tax credits, cut...
Daily Kos / Politics

Economic triage

by Daily Kos on Dec 12, 2010 • No Comments

Triage is not pretty, but it is designed to save lives. On a battlefield, at a disaster site, or anywhere else that there are multiple victims of natural or unnatural violence, rescue personnel have to make spot decisions about who can and cannot be saved, and much more heartbreakingly, about which of those that can...

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No help for 99ers in tax cut framework

by Daily Kos on Dec 6, 2010 • No Comments

For a good run-down of what's in the "framework" (it's not a deal, yet, but the outlines of one) that Obama announced, here's dday:

Just to outline this framework: under the deal, the Bush tax cuts for all rate levels would be extended for two years. The estate tax, in a

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