Corbett: Unemployed waiting on benefits to run out
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Legal Newsline) - Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett said last week that some workers who are between jobs will stay that way as long as they are receiving unemployment benefits. Corbett made the comment on Pennsylvania Public Radio while campaigning for governor in Elizabethtown. His Democratic opponent in ...
No extension of unemployment benefits in sight for the long-term jobless
TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- Even before his unemployment checks ended, Dwight Michael Frazee's days were filled with the pursuit of any idea that could earn him a buck. But few are working out, and now his nights are filled with dread. In the coming weeks, the Senate is expected to ...
It's always the economy, stupid
With merely five months before the election and the outlook grim for Democrats, we're starting to hear rumblings of a fight within the White House. The political side, we're told, wants to focus on the swelling deficit, which it believes is contributing mightily to the public's sense that the economy ...
Senate likely to get 60th vote for unemployment extension next week
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin got clearance from the state attorney general that a special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd can be held in November, reports the New York Times. Manchin had said he wanted to know whether an election could take place this year or would ...
Why the Idiocy about Unemployment?
My wife, a labor economist, is upset with NPR's "The Take Away" (and many other news programs) for reinforcing the myth that somehow the unemployed are to blame for not having a job. We all should be angry as well because the jobs just aren't there. In fact, the latest ...
The Self-inflicted Insanity of American Unemployment
News that the unemployment rate has fallen to a “mere” 9.5% seems to suggest an improvement in our dire economic prospects. The reality, however, is far grimmer, as the latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate. On balance, it would seem that the apparent “ignition” to the economy achieved in ...
What We Make Our Sisters Do for Healthcare
Sisters, we are allowing great pain and suffering. Sisters, we are doing more than allowing great pain and suffering, we are participating in it. All around us, our moms, our daughters, our cousins, our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends and, yes, our sisters are fighting in quiet desperation against a ...
Republicans: The Party of Unemployment
From now until Nov. 2, the Republican Party will be the party of unemployment. The logic is straightforward: The more people who are unemployed on Election Day, the better the prospects for Republicans in the fall election. They expect, with good cause, that voters will hold the Democrats responsible for ...
Kelliher Proposes Bold Minn. Health Care Plan
Getting healthy is a major focus of the 2010 campaign for governor in Minnesota, and democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher is promising to insure every person in Minnesota by the end of her first term.Anderson Kelliher is going further than any other candidate. She said Minnesota needs more than a health ...
Lawmakers are putting economic recovery at risk
Seldom has the policy conflict between recovery and reform been presented as starkly as in the last two weeks. On the one hand, there is last week's congressional agreement on a historic reshaping of the financial regulatory system — which brings stronger consumer protections, sharper oversight of mega-banks and risk-oriented ...
No Gulf seafood, no po-boys; owner shuts La. cafe
GHEENS, La. – Vicki Guillot has served her last seafood po-boy.The local bounty of fresh shrimp and oysters that once kept the only restaurant in this rural Louisiana town bustling can no longer be culled from the Gulf of Mexico because of the massive oil spill that has fouled the ...
Ed Shultz and Tom Harkin Talk Failure of Unemployment Bill on The Ed Show
SCHULTZ: And in my Playbook tonight, senate republicans once again blocked legislation to extend unemployment benefits. The vote less than an hour ago was 57 to 41. Hold it right there. Fifty seven people in the senate want to help those folks out there that don‘t have benefits and that‘s ...
Senate again rejects expanded spending package
Senate Democrats abandoned on Thursday efforts to provide fresh aid to cash-strapped state governments and extend emergency unemployment benefits for millions of jobless workers, leaving in limbo President Obama's push for more spending to bolster the economy. The decision came after the Senate failed again to muster 60 votes to ...
Poll: Spill drags the president's rating down
Two months of oil continuing to gush from a well off the Gulf Coast, as well as an unemployment rate still near 10 percent, have taken a toll on President Barack Obama and his standing with the American public, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.For the first ...
Rand Paul to long-term jobless: Just go back to work
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Friday urged Americans who have been unemployed for many months to consider returning to the workforce in less desirable jobs rather than continue relying on government unemployment assistance. "In Europe, they give about a year of unemployment. We're up to two years now ...
Nevada takes dubious jobless title from Michigan
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Nevada's jobless rate hit a record high last month and and is now the highest in the nation, the first time in four years that Michigan doesn't hold that distinction, according to a government report released Friday. The Silver State's unemployment rate climbed to 14% in ...
Does Washington care about unemployment?
U.S. Treasury bond prices leaped again in May. By the third week of the month, the 30-year Treasury bond sold for ten percent more than it had at the start of the month, a mark of the growing excess demand for safe, liquid, high-quality financial assets. As economist John Stuart ...
Progressives set to meet, support democracy
Chuck Ogg thinks the government needs to do more to help the people.Ogg, spokesman for the Rock County Progressives, said he and others decided to form a group after attending a MoveOn event and watching Michael Moore’s film: “Capitalism: A Love Story.” The movie examines the impact of corporate dominance ...
Protesters enter NYC bank buildings before rally
NEW YORK — Noisy protesters with signs took over two bank building lobbies on Thursday in a prelude to a Wall Street rally by workers and union leaders angry over lost jobs, the taxpayer-funded bailout of financial institutions and questionable lending practices by big banks.Hours before the scheduled rally, more ...
Larry Summers May Be Leaving Obama Administration
The conventional wisdom in Washington and on Wall Street has been that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner -- the target of populist outrage over Wall Street bailouts and high unemployment -- would be the first to leave the Obama administration’s economic team after the mid-term elections. But the FOX Business Network ...
Obama readies steps to fight foreclosures, particularly for unemployed
The Obama administration plans to overhaul how it is tackling the foreclosure crisis, in part by requiring lenders to temporarily slash or eliminate monthly mortgage payments for many borrowers who are unemployed, senior officials said Thursday. Banks and other lenders would have to reduce the payments to no more than ...
The Green They Steal, The Greed They Wear
Friends, It was amazing. Every story on the front page of Monday's New York Times told the story of the Age of Greed during which a system known as capitalism is slowly, but surely, killing us: Insurance company greed: "Millions Spent to Sway Democrats on Health Care" War profiteers: "Contractors ...
Moore: Democrats are 'going to get an ass-whoopin' of biblical proportions'
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on Sunday railed on Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, predicting, "Democrats on Election Day 2010 are going to get an ass-whoopin' of biblical proportions if things don't change right now."In an open letter to the White House, Moore placed the blame for Democrats' dismal electoral prospects ...
Payday lenders giving advances on unemployment checks
The payday loan industry has found a new and lucrative source of business: the unemployed. Payday lenders, which typically provide workers with cash advances on their paychecks, are offering the same service to those covered by unemployment insurance. No job? No problem. A typical unemployed Californian receiving $300 a week ...
Jim McDermott Calls Kentucky's Jim Bunning a Bully, Forgets to Mention Bunning's Nuts Too
Rep. Jim McDermott is pissed. In the middle of the worst recession in a century, Jim Bunning, a Senator from Kentucky and Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, has turned into a one-man filibuster, stalling emergency funding for unemployment insurance days before it's set to expire. "Bunning was a bully as ...
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My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 20th, 2013
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If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
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Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
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Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
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Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
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A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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