9 hours ago by alyssaconner2

African-American males struggle with unemployment The unemployment rate has hit an ultimate high for male-dominated industries, like construction and manufacturing. The Labor Department reported construction is down 62,000 jobs and manufacturing is down 61,000 jobs. The recession is affecting Africa ...

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10 hours ago by dave

The San Jose Mercury News reports a bit of sobering news to kick off the week: cash-strapped California now will likely finish 2009 with its unemployment insurance fund $7.4 billion in the red. The state fund has already been bailed out by the feds for $4.7 billion–funds that must be repaid by 2011 ...

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12 hours ago by johnq

A new report from the Congressional Research Service summarizes the issues related to the various extensions of unemployment insurance benefits authorized by Congress. With the most recent extension, workers receiving insurance benefits can qualify potentially for four tiers of Extended Unemployment ...

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4 days ago by Financial News

The number of first-time filers for unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, holding at the lowest level since January, said a government report released Thursday.

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4 days ago by Mike Lillis

More than 1 million unemployed workers are poised to lose their jobless benefits in January if Congress doesn’t step in to extend the filing deadlines for the emergency insurance program, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. Although ...

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4 days ago by admin

AP - The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above the level that would indicate the economy is adding jobs.

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5 days ago by Mike Lillis

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) has a message for his Democratic colleagues moving forward with plans for another job creation bill: hold your horses. In an interview with MSNBC Wednesday, Clyburn said the focus for Congress now should be “to get the economy stabilized and grow the econom ...

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5 days ago by Mike Lillis

Yesterday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters that Congress will likely stick around Washington well into December in order to wrap up legislation reforming health care and tackling unemployment. But he didn’t go out on any limbs to say what the latter bill will contain or how ...

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5 days ago by Mary Kane

As lawmakers start to shift their attention to job creation, a Brandeis University study finds that four in 10 families don’t have enough savings or assets on hand to pay for essential expenses during a period of unemployment. The report also notes that the poor economy is hitting minority household ...

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6 days ago by Mike Lillis

As we mentioned here last week, the recently passed jobless benefits extension, though packaged as a boost for Main Street, provided many times more funding to the nation’s businesses, including the largest corporations. Specifically, the law allows companies to recover already-paid taxes by applyin ...

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