Initial unemployment applications unexpectedly increased from 460,000 last week to 484,000 this week.
An unnamed Labor Department official quoted in the wire stories says: “Volatility is always associated with the Easter holiday” and “This is more attributable to administrative factors than to possible layoffs. I did not see More…
Next week, the Senate returns from recess to a months-long battle over the extension of expiring programs providing benefits to millions of jobless Americans.
In March, the House passed a $9 billion bill to prevent benefit loss. The Senate rushed to pass the House version before the congressional More…
Those reports about an $80 billion Senate jobs package? “Wrong,” a Senate Democratic aide told TWI. The staffer indicated this afternoon that Democrats are weighing a number of proposals to tackle the unemployment crisis but remain undecided about which route they’ll go. The $80 billion package, the aide More…
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 More…
In Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s statement on the new unemployment rate of 10.2 percent, he argues that “it is time the Obama administration stop spreading their phony ‘saved or created’ talking points and start creating the dependable jobs America needs”:
President Obama promised jobs during his campaign for
A protracted and very partisan Senate skirmish has left hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans without unemployment benefits — an impasse that Democrats leaders are hoping to break this week.
They have their work cut out.
Almost five weeks after the House passed legislation to extend insurance benefits More…
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