Up to 11,000 refugees will lose access to federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments next week after an eligibility extension begins to run out, The New Mexico Independent reported today.
The recession has made adjusting to life in the U.S. difficult for refugees, as even younger More…
After failing to pass an extension of unemployment benefits earlier this week, the House tried again — and succeeded, 270 to 153. The Senate will take up its version of the bill when Congress returns from a week-long break, on July 12.
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Sandy More…
This isn’t good. The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits — after holding around 450,000 or 460,000 for weeks — spiked up to 472,000 last week, the Labor Department said. That is a 13,000-person rise. Economists expected claims to decline slightly to 458,000. The four-week More…
Last week, thousands of Americans who have exhausted their unemployment insurance — the 99ers, named after the maximum number of weeks of state and federal benefits — sent letters and petitions to Washington as part of a futile campaign to convince the Senate to pass a bolstered version More…
This morning, another round of jobless benefits expired, with Congress away and hope of the approval of a new tier diminishing. And Sara Murray of The Wall Street Journal highlights one of the worst facets of the unemployment crisis: Nearly half of the unemployed — 45.9 percent, or More…
Most state unemployment programs are flat broke, according to federal analysts, and the states themselves are largely to blame.
Thirty-four state unemployment insurance trust funds have run dry as a result of the recent recession, forcing those programs to take out nearly $40 billion in federal loans to weather the More…
Politico’s Ben Smith reports:
Reacting to a rising tide of anger from gay and lesbian supporters at a series of slights and deferred promises, President Obama will tomorrow extend some benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
The move, which begins to mirror the policy of
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