9 hours ago by NYConvergence

About 10,000 unemployed New Yorkers an hour were calling New York State's unemployment hotline yesterday, causing the system to crash. The unemployment insurance Web site soon followed. Both systems were down for about five hours. Service is now restored. New...

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2 days ago by Robert Reich

Lots of talk this week about the proposed stimulus. One high priority ought to be the most vulnerable members of our society. The safety net created in the 1930s to protect Americans from extreme poverty is in tatters. Now that we’re in the worst downturn since the Depression, that safety net needs ...

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3 days ago

The Democratic economic package may include much more government-assisted health insurance and unemployment help.

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4 days ago

The Democratic economic recovery package may include expanded government-assisted health care insurance and unemployment compensation.

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5 days ago by Norm

I tend to be all business at the gym and, for that reason, not terribly social. Still there are two people that I’ve become friendly with. The first - an older and recently retired gentleman - I met when he shared just how amazed he was that someone else at our gym read The New Yorker. The second is ...

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5 days ago by gregip

Dec 30th 2008 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition The benefits awaiting America’s unemployed are outdated and skimpy COMPARED with the systems in other industrialised countries, the American unemployment-insurance (UI) scheme pays lower benefits for less time and to a smaller share of ...

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6 days ago by dday

One of the 50 "mini-Hoovers" in the states finally got religion when he couldn't fix the problem of poor people not having enough to eat with another round of tax cuts. The episode is instructive. COLUMBIA, S.C. — Just hours before the unemployment benefits fund was to run out in South Carolina, the ...

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7 days ago by DF

“Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits fell 94,000 to a seasonally adjusted 492,000 in the week ended December 27 from an unrevised 586,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said.” “It was the lowest reading for initial claims since the week ended November 1 and well below the ...

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10 days ago by Jesse Johns

This morning I filed my first request for unemployment. Although most have reminded me that it is a benefit and it is insurance for unemployment, I still feel bad about applying for it. With the economy the way it is and the discussions with others before me who have been laid off, I realize that it ...

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10 days ago by Robert Reich

I try to be optimistic — especially this time of year when the days are short and cold, when almost everybody things everyone else is having a better time than they are, and now that we’re in the worst economic downturn in almost anyone’s memory. Yet I also try to be realistic about the effects of t ...

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