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• U.S. housing market meltdown not over yet

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in an interview with Reuters home prices will resume their decline by early next year as foreclosure sales pick up again.“The housing crash is not over,” he said.The U.S. housing market has suffered the worst downturn since ...
  16 hours ago

• 10 Things To Do After Losing Your Job

  
  A Recruiters Blog — Authority: 121
  Losing a job is one of the most difficult things to deal with, as you are left clueless as to where to start from now. Here is a list of 10 things that you should keep in mind, and that will keep you moving in the difficult time. 1. Make a budget and stick to it. Try to figure out how long you can survive without ...
  1 day ago

• Answers About Unemployment Benefits: Part 2

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 152
  Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, answers reader questions about unemployment benefits.Share your thoughts.
  1 day ago

• US Double-Dip Recession: Has The Second Leg Begun?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to their lowest level in over a year last week. Likely a precursor to their jobs report Friday, the Labor Department proudly announced that “just” 457,000 Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits. That’s the fifth straight week of decline, the ...
  1 day ago

• Congress moves to extend jobless benefits

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 152
  Lawmakers in both the House and Senate introduced bills this week to push the deadline to apply for unemployment benefits to as far back as 2011.
  1 day ago

• Answers About Unemployment Benefits: Part 1

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 152
  Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, answers reader questions about unemployment benefits.
  1 day ago

• Taking Questions on Unemployment Benefits

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 152
  In the "Ask the Expert" segment, well be taking questions about unemployment benefits.
  1 day ago

• The Wave of Layoffs is Rapidly Fading

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 636
  All hail the arrival of zero! It’s been a long time coming—nearly two years. But better late than never.Technically, nonfarm payrolls slipped last month by 11,000, the Labor Department reports. But in a labor force of nearly 131 million, that’s effectively no change if we consider the potential...
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• TARP Cash Targeted in Jobs Push (Dems trying to steal remaining funds for their schemes)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Democrats have begun to hash out how to pay for a mix of unemployment benefits, state aid, tax credits and other incentives they hope will turn around the countrys surging unemployment rate. Funding for the initiatives would come from two sources. For job creation, the principal target would be a pot of more than $150 ...
  1 day ago

• Can the Jobs Summit Yield a Cost-Effective Solution?

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 134
  We just recently read that, according to the critics, the president’s jobs summit — which began earlier this afternoon — “is more about politics than policy.” If you think about it, isn’t most, if not all, policy driven by political pressures? On one hand, economists like Lawrence Summers feel that ...
  2 days ago

• Wait a sec on that dire unemployment news …

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 439
  The most recent Beige Book from the Fed finds unemployment the big problem in the current economy, but maybe better times are coming sooner than later . I’m still not going to hold my breath. From the second link: The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless insurance unexpectedly fell last ...
  2 days ago

• COBRA Subsidy Ends For Millions Of Unemployed Americans

  
  Reed's Bankruptcy Blog — Authority: 138
  COBRA subsidies that paid 65 percent of unemployed workers’ health insurance premium have ended for 7 million unemployed Americans November 30th.  The subsidy which is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act lasts for 9 months from the date that an unemployed worker applies. But the first group of ...
  2 days ago

• The Untold Story - Emergency Unemployment Compensation Claims Surge By 265k In One Week

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 752
  Even as CNBC, which seems to be unaware it is now under new ownership and can stop selling GE stock all day, every day (will Cramer be allowed to pump the worthless equities of competitor cable and satellite companies going forward? Inquiring minds want to know), could not stop praising the fabulous improvement in ...
  2 days ago

• How To Prepare For Job Losses

  
  Reed's Bankruptcy Blog — Authority: 138
  If you were to listen to some of the most popular economists and pundits you would think that the economy is on the upswing and that Americans are just swimming in cash.  But the truth of this matter is that the economy is still faltering.  Unemployment is still over 10 percent nationwide and some states ...
  2 days ago

• A $300 Billion Jobs Bill?

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 735
  So reports The Hill, which added up the various proposals under serious consideration as Democrats aim to stem rising unemployment rates ( again ). Central to the package, The Hill said, will be another extension of unemployment benefits and COBRA insurance subsidies ($100 billion); emergency funds for struggling ...
  2 days ago

• New jobless claims fall unexpectedly to 457K

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign that the job market is slowly improving.
  2 days ago

• Seven (7) reasons I believe a massive crash is coming and probably will begin this month;

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  1. Foreclosures continue unabated and 2010 will be worse. 2. Commercial Real Estate is STILL the 1200 lb Gorilla in the room! 3. Unemployment continues unabated. Worse still, most people losing their jobs cannot find new jobs. Unemployment benefits continue to run out increasing the number of people out of work and ...
  2 days ago

• Food stamp program is expanding by about 20,000 out-of-work and underemployed people a day

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  The federal program now feeds one in eight adults and one in four children, with more than 36 million people using inconspicuous plastic cards to buy staples, Concannon told The Washington Post.…The program is expanding by about 20,000 out-of-work and underemployed people a day, the Post reported, noting the growth ...
  4 days ago

• Monday Musings: November 30, 2009

  
  mavenandmeddler — Authority: 132
  Are you waiting as breathlessly as I am to hear what Obama has to say on Tuesday, when he lets us in on the bold new plan to win the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan? The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is certainly all ears, having released a report outlining how the thing was irretrievably lost ...
  5 days ago

• Health Care, Abortion and Moral Choice

  
  Talking Philosophy — Authority: 122
  One issue that has become part of the American health reform debate is that of abortion . Oversimplifying things a bit, some folks are very concerned that public money will be used to pay for abortions and they are fighting to prevent this. It might be believed that the politicians who oppose using public ...
  1 week ago

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