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Draft Senate Bill Includes 3-Month Unemployment Benefits Extension
4 hours ago
by Mike Lillis
It’s just an early version — or so the Democrats are saying — but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for unemployment insurance (which expires Feb. 28) through the end of May. The additional three months are half what the House passed in December, and an ev ...
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Hawaii’s 2007 Tax Cut Turned Into a 600 Percent Increase in 2010
5 hours ago
by Megan Carpentier
In 2007, under the stewardship of Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, Hawaii reduced the unemployment tax rate on employers under the guise of encouraging job growth — despite the fact that, at the time, Hawaii’s unemployment rate was 3.1 percent. Now that the unemployment rate is 6.9 percent, and people ...
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National Day of Action on Unemployment Insurance, February 10th
7 hours ago
by laudyms
From the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: In her big speech at the right-wing “tea party convention,” Palin had the gall to blame President Obama and Democrats in Congress for the mess that her party created in the first place. Well, here are the facts: from BanksterUSA: This week will b ...
Wake-up Call - laudyms.wordpress.com · Rank: 109,388 · 3 references
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High as a Kite – Firing an Employee on Drugs
15 hours ago
by Blogforce
If you fire an employee because you say she was “high” on drugs, you may still have to pay unemployment claims. You must prove five facts to establish misconduct in an unemployment claims case. Without these five elements, you are not likely to overcome the claimant’s sworn denial of drug use becaus ...
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