Ronald Loveridge, the Mayor of Riverside, Ca., recently issued a statement regarding the unemployment crisis facing America today, in his capacity of President of the National League of Cities. The statement was issued following the release of the August 2010 Employment Situation report and highlighted the financial difficulties placed on millions of American families by [...]
The latest unemployment figures released by the US Department of Labor indicate that there was a slight drop in the number of new unemployment benefits applications being filled out last week, after the results released the previous week which indicated that over half a million people signed on for unemployment benefits in just one week. [...]
The latest unemployment figures released by the US Labor Department report that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits increased by an unexpectedly high figure of 500,000 during the week ending on the 14th of August 2010. A substantial increase in the number of people claiming benefits under the current federal extensions to the [...]
The unemployment benefits extension bill is unlikely to be passed in today’s Senate session on July 15. According to the latest updates of the Democrats’ calendar, the Senate will be focusing its time and attention on the Restoring American Financial Stability Act. The official agenda states that “the Senate will resume consideration of the conference [...]
The unemployment benefits extension bill is likely to be passed sometime next week. This was revealed during the recent White House press briefing by Robert Gibbs, after he was asked “how concerned is this White House about the fact that if the unemployment benefits are not extended, it could be a contributing factor possibly to [...]
The unemployment benefits extension bill is likely to be kept on the backburner again today as a call for votes is unlikely to happen during the July 14 session. According to the Democrats’ latest calendar update, the Senate’s attention is focused on another matter, and they were “working on an agreement on the initial amendments [...]
The growing number of jobless Americans who are eagerly waiting for the unemployment benefits extension bill to be passed today are likely to be disappointed yet again. According to the Democrats’ latest calendar to July 13, the Senate is not due to touch on the unemployment benefits extension bill at all today, let alone call [...]
The future of the unemployment benefits extension bill may be decided today after the Senate reassembles after the one-week recess. According to the Democrats’ calendar, the Senate may be calling for a vote on the unemployment benefits extension bill at the end of the business day. The official document stated that “Senators should expect a [...]
The unemployment benefits extension bill has failed to be passed by the Senate, but even though more than a million jobless Americans have lost their unemployment benefits, it has come to light that certain Senators are voting against the extension bill even though their own states have double-digit unemployment rates. According to Think Progress, there [...]
The failure of the Senate to pass the unemployment benefits extension bill has riled Paul Krugman of the New York Times. In a recent article titled “Punishing the Jobless,” Krugman said that “American workers face the worst job market since the Great Depression, with five job seekers for every job opening, with the average spell [...]
