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• Here comes the unemployment tax increase

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Here comes that unemployment insurance tax hike we’ve all been waiting for . Under state law, the state’s unemployment trust fund is supposed to stand at 1 percent of taxable wages, or about $860 million. The fund has been depleted in the wake of high jobless claims. As a result, employers will have to pay ...
  3 hours ago

• Here’s the Vehicle for the Next Jobless Benefits Extension

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  It’s no mystery that some Democrats are hoping to extend emergency unemployment benefits even further into next year — both to acknowledge a jobless rate that’s topped 10 percent , and to fix a filing deadline glitch that will prevent those in high-unemployment states from getting the full 20-week extension ...
  18 hours ago

• Reid Acknowledges Need to Extend Jobless Benefits Program

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) acknowledged today that, in order for people to access the full 20 weeks of additional jobless benefits enacted last week, Congress will have to extend the underlying program before year’s end. “It is true that we will need to extend the program before ...
  1 day ago

• Jobless benefits extension muddled by lawmaker wrangling

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  Mike Lillis at the Washington Independent sends the following dispatch from the frontlines in the partisan war to extend benefits to the vast ranks of the unemployed. “To hear the Democrats tell the tale ,” he writes, the extension of jobless benefits enacted over the weekend will provide those living in ...
  2 days ago

• Jobless Benefits Extension Stiffs High Unemployment States

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) (WDCpix) To hear the Democrats tell the tale , the extension of jobless benefits enacted over the weekend will provide those living in high-unemployment states with an additional 20 weeks of insurance. Well, not quite. Because the bill was held up for so long in the Senate, an ...
  2 days ago

• Employment bill called ‘corporate giveaway’

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 671
  WASHINGTON– Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered a wildly different message. “This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook example of how not to deal with the ...
  2 days ago

• Employment Bill Called ‘Corporate Giveaway’

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered a wildly different message. “This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook example of how not ...
  3 days ago

• Politics: City’s JobsNow Program Also Benefits Newsom

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A piece of the stimulus program Congress passed earlier this year is helping the mayor burnish his credentials with the business community.
  4 days ago

• President Obama Signs Unemployment Insurance Bill

  
  Atlanta Real Estate Forum — Authority: 437
  It’s official, home buyers in Atlanta and all of the nation have a second chance to receive the home buyer tax credit as President Obama signed the bill into a law. Not only is the home buyer tax credit extended to April 30, 2010, but it has also been enhanced so that you don’t have [...]
  5 days ago

• Obama Signs Unemployment Insurance Extension

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
  Long-term jobless workers finally have some relief, with President Barack Obama signing legislation today to provide up to 20 extra weeks of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for workers who exhaust their benefits before finding new work. The bill had been held up for almost six weeks as Senate Republicans ...
  5 days ago

• Jobless Workers Get a Little Help for the Holidays

  
  California Budget Bites — Authority: 117
  President Obama approved nearly five more months of unemployment benefits for many of the nation’s jobless workers this morning, bringing combined state and federal unemployment benefits to 99 weeks in high-unemployment states such as California. This additional help comes as the national unemployment rate climbed ...
  5 days ago

• Unemployment Extension Is Law

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  The Detroit Free Press reports : As expected, President Barack Obama this morning signed into law a bill extending benefits for out-of-work Americans who have exhausted their unemployment checks or will do so by year’s end. Only 45 days after the House first passed the bill.
  5 days ago

• Home Buyer Tax Credit Passed by Congress

  
  DPL Homes — Authority: 91
  If you haven’t heard by now the Congress has extended and expanded the homebuyer tax credit.  Both the House and the Senate passed an Unemployment Insurance Extension bill that includes an amendment that extends and expands the homebuyer tax credit.  The bill is expected to be signed into law by President Obama ...
  5 days ago

• Congress Passes the Tax Credit Extension

  
  Atlanta Real Estate Forum — Authority: 437
  Big things were happening on Capitol Hill yesterday as the tax credit extension legislation was sent to the Senate and then to the House. The Senate passed the credit with a vote of 98 to 0 and then sent the bill to the House, who passed it by a vote of 403 to 12. Clearly, [...]
  6 days ago

• Dying for a job

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 125
  Seventeenth century painting by Philippe de Champaigne . An article in Wednesdays Washington Post highlighted the Obama administrations efforts to grapple with rising unemployment in the midst of signs of an expanding economy. Both the administration and congress are going to have try to balance the need for action ...
  6 days ago

• 99 Weeks

  
  Economix — Authority: 733
  Thats the maximum length of time during which workers can receive unemployment benefits, as per a bill President Obama is expected to sign tomorrow.
  6 days ago

• Tax Credit Extended, Some Home Buyers To Get 6500

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 704
  The House of Representatives today joined the Senate in approving legislation that would expand and extend into next spring an $8000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. Existing home buyers will get $6500 home buyer tax credit.
  6 days ago

• House Set to Act Fast Now that Senate Finally Passed Jobless Aid Extension

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 658
  BREAKING: The U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon passed the unemployment insurance extension bill, by a 403-12 vote. The bill is on its way to President Barack Obama who could sign it as early as tomorrow. After weeks of Republican stalling and obstruction that cost hundreds of thousands of jobless ...
  6 days ago

• House Extends Jobless Benefits and Home Credits

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The White House said that President Obama would sign the measure, which passed after weeks of delay the day before a monthly labor report comes out.
  6 days ago

• House Passes Extended Unemployment Benefits

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Yesterday it was the Senate ; today the House passed legislation to extend jobless benefits at least 14 weeks nationwide. The count was 403-12. The “nays” comprised mostly conservative Republicans who oppose the tiny employer surtax that will fund the benefit extension. The bill will provide an additional 14 ...
  6 days ago

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