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Unemployment Benefits vs. Wall Street Trader Tax Breaks 17 Jul 2013 | 07:31 pm
Cross-posted from Americans for Tax Fairness -- Going jobless for over six months may seem rough, but apparently it’s Wall Street’s riskiest gamblers who really deserve our sympathy.
Sequester Cuts to Federal Unemployment Benefits Start to Hit in Many States 3 May 2013 | 11:14 pm
During the past month, twenty states and the District of Columbia implemented cuts to benefit amounts paid under the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program – cuts mandated under the...
New York State Lawmakers Approve Changes to Unemployment Insurance Benefits 2 Apr 2013 | 10:26 pm
Provisions passed as part of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s annual budget will make much-needed improvements to the state’s unemployment insurance (UI) program. Finally, New York’s maximum UI benefi...
Federal Unemployment Benefit Cuts to Hit in Budget ‘Sequester’ 26 Feb 2013 | 11:15 pm
Yet another dangerous policy debacle, caused by Congressional stonewalling, is set to unleash large-scale across-the-board federal spending cuts – known as ‘sequestration’-- totaling $1.2 trillion ove...
N.C. Enacts Harshest Cuts to Unemployment Insurance, Shutting Off Federal Extension Benefits 13 Feb 2013 | 10:56 pm
In a display of shocking disregard for the hardships facing the four hundred thousand unemployed job-seekers in North Carolina, where the state’s 9.2 percent jobless rate is the nation’s fifth highest...
New York City Council Passes Landmark Bill Protecting Unemployed Job-Seekers From Discrimination 24 Jan 2013 | 11:09 pm
Amidst continuing national crisis of long-term unemployment, strongest-in-the-nation legislation prohibits employers from refusing to consider or hire qualified job applicants simply because they are ...
Federal Unemployment Insurance Renewed for 2013 3 Jan 2013 | 11:11 pm
Just one hour before midnight on New Year’s Day, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a one-year renewal of federally-funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) as part of a year-end tax c...
New Year’s Deadline Looms for Federal Unemployment Insurance; President Presses for Renewal 28 Dec 2012 | 10:46 pm
President Obama has called Congressional leaders to a meeting at the White House later today as the year-end expiration of federal jobless aid, and a host of harsh austerity measures and tax changes f...
Report: Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Compels Renewal of Federal Jobless Aid 18 Dec 2012 | 07:34 pm
Record levels of long-term unemployment continue to distinguish the Great Recession and its aftermath, as documented in a new report today from the National Employment Law Project (NELP). The report f...
Report: Share of Unemployed Receiving Jobless Aid Will Hit Record Low if Congress Fails to Act 11 Dec 2012 | 07:43 pm
Without Congressional reauthorization of federal unemployment insurance for 2013, only one-in-four jobless workers will receive any unemployment benefits next year, according to a new report today fro...
