So says the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who heads the Senate Finance Committee.
The bill would extend the filing deadline for the existing tiers of emergency unemployment benefits — not to be confused with the creation of additional tiers — through the end of More…
As the GAO noted yesterday, 34 states have exhausted all funding for their unemployment insurance programs, forcing them to borrow roughly $40 billion to keep jobless workers in benefits. By 2013, the Department of Labor estimates, that trend will affect 40 states, requiring federal loans totaling $90 billion. More…
As Congress continues to negotiate unemployment benefits legislation, Bloomberg has a story this week noting what few others have: that the so-called extension of benefits isn’t really an extension of benefits at all. Rather, it’s an extension of the filing deadline to apply for existing benefits, More…
Last night, Congress passed — and President Obama signed into law — legislation that provides a short-term benefit extension for the long-term unemployed. The bill is designed to allow lawmakers more time to negotiate a longer-term benefit extension for the long-term unemployed.
Confusing? You bet.
And there seem More…
In a swift train of events, the Senate last night passed a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits, which the House approved a few hours later and President Obama signed into law shortly afterward. “In these tough economic times,” Obama said, ”it is more critical than ever to bring relief More…
The vote was 59 to 38 on final passage. Three Republicans — Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine) and George Voinovich (Ohio) — joined every voting Democrat in favor of the proposal.
The bill, which now moves to the House,* will provide a two-month cushion for unemployed workers to access More…
They’ve been stalled on it for weeks, but tonight the Senate will vote on final passage of legislation providing a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits.
Republicans, behind Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), have been fighting the $18 billion proposal because the Democrats didn’t offset the cost with spending cuts elsewhere. More…
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats’ hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival of the deadline to file for new tiers, which came and went on April 5.
The Oklahoma Republican — known not endearingly as “Dr. No” More…
By the slimmest of margins, the Senate last night approved a measure waiving the pay-go rules for legislation extending the filling deadline for unemployment benefits (not to be confused with the creation of Tier V) until June. Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio) was the only Republican to vote in More…
As the Senate moves this week to pass a very short-term extension of unemployment benefits, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert notes what few voices on Capitol Hill are willing to: That the string of temporary fixes to the nation’s safety net programs are doing nothing More…
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