My colleague notes that the House just passed the Senate extension of federal unemployment benefits, as the Senate did last night. The bill now moves on to President Obama, who will likely sign the benefits into law today or tomorrow morning.
The package does not create new benefits, More…
Tonight, after waiting 30 hours for a cloture vote, the Senate reauthorized the federal extension of unemployment benefits — moving one step closer to restoring unemployment insurance to 2.6 million American workers. Tomorrow, the bill needs four or five hours of procedural time before a House vote. As soon More…
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just indicated that the Senate might take up the unemployment benefits extension on Tuesday. The federally extended benefits, covered in detail here, lapsed at the end of May — leaving approximately 300,000 families per week, living in states with unemployment rates over 8 More…
With Congress back in session after the July 4 holiday, the legislative schedule in the Senate is extremely cramped. There’s the financial regulatory reform bill. There’s the unemployment insurance extension. There’s Medicaid funding. There’s funding to help states prevent the layoff of thousands of teachers and firefighters. There’s the More…
The 2.1 million Americans hoping for a federal extension of unemployment insurance benefits are still waiting on Gov. Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia.
The governor will name a person to hold Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) Senate seat temporarily, until a permanent replacement can be voted in this fall. (Byrd More…
Yesterday, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) told reporters he hopes to hold a special election to replace Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) in November, rather than waiting until 2012.
Manchin said he will ask state Attorney General Darrell McGraw (D) for a legal opinion on the issue. If McGraw
This morning, the Labor Department announced that initial weekly jobless claims fell to 454,000. The number of people continuing to receive benefits fell to the lowest level in seven months, in large part due to Congress’ inability to renew federally extended benefits. The broader trend remains: Initial claims More…
I wanted to pull out part of my article from this morning, as it makes a somewhat confusing but nevertheless important point. Most policy experts and economists think that unemployment insurance discourages people from looking for work or accepting jobs offered to them, keeping them unemployed for longer — More…
In his weekly radio address, given on Saturday morning, President Obama accused congressional Republicans of holding the federal extension of unemployment benefits “hostage.”
On Friday, we learned that after 22 straight months of job loss, our economy has now created jobs in the private sector for 6 months in
Another vote on a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed may come to the floor of the Senate as early as tonight, according to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
“I hope that we can get this done — we only missed it by one vote More…
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