Unemployment Compensation

Government extends emergency unemployment compensation

The Pacific Business News (Free subscription) | yesterday

As many as 5,000 unemployed workers in Hawaii could get seven additional weeks of federal unemployment benefits.

Unemployment compensation extended

The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Unemployed Colorado workers are now eligible for up to seven additional weeks of emergency unemployment compensation, state officials said Monday.

Florida unemployment hits 15-year high

Wallstrip (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Unemployment has hit a 15-year high in Florida, and there seems to be no relief in sight. During the month of October, the state’s unemployment rate reached a whopping 7 percent. Some experts think that by the end of next year, nearly 10 percent of the state’s residents could be unemployed. Recently, President Bush signed a [...]

Conn. labor agency to add phone lines, resources

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008

Connecticut's Department of Labor is opening phone lines to help more people inquiring about unemployment benefits, and temporarily rehiring recent retirees to handle the extra workload.

"There will be no freedom from want. The only thing we might now hope for is freedom from fear. Even that is a distant state of mind."

Stone Soup Station (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

"We are entering a recession the likes of which we haven't seen in about three decades or perhaps longer. Since the last time the economy fared so poorly, changes in the unemployment compensation system, coupled with a transformation of the labor force to include vastly more part-time and low-wage workers, have left a majority of workers unprotected by this basic benefit." America Out of Work By Marie...

Editorial: Sewing Up the Safety Net

New York Times (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

Congress must take precise steps to strengthen the ability of the federal and state governments to help the growing millions who need assistance.

Rell worried about unemployment fund

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008

Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Wednesday that if Connecticut's unemployment numbers continue to rise, the state's unemployment compensation fund may fall short of cash.

"Woodward and Hall Analyze the Financial Crisis and the Recession"

Economist's View (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008

I've been arguing that government spending is preferable to tax cuts as a means of stimulating the economy. Via an email from Bob Hall, an argument against that position from a paper described below: General Stimulus Current forecasts have real...

Governor Rendell Says Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Could Immediately Help 54,000 ..

EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008

HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today said more than 54,000 out-of-work Pennsylvanians, who have exhausted their 13 weeks of federally .. - Read more

• Governor Rendell Says Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Could Immediately Help 54,000 Pennsylvanians - PR News Wire

Why Permanent Tax Cuts Are the Best Stimulus

Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008

These results may seem surprising, but they are not. They correspond very closely to what basic economic theory tells us. According to the permanent-income theory of Milton Friedman, or the life-cycle theory of Franco Modigliani, temporary increases in income will not lead to significant increases in consumption. However, if increases are longer-term, as in the [...]

• Taylor: Why Permanent Tax Cuts Are the Best Stimulus - Economist's View

Ohio seeks US help with jobless fund

Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008

Ohio has asked the federal government for $550 million to help shore up a state unemployment compensation fund hit hard by the shrinking economy.

• Ohio turns to feds for unemployment help - The Business Courier of Cincinnati

Illlinois school children’s gift to Wal-Mart.

PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008

When the screamers on the Right go after Obama as a redistributionist, there is more than a hint of hypocrisy at work. They don’t mind redistribution that steals money from working people and hands it over to the corporations. But expand social services, pay for public schools, extend unemployment compensation or create a national health [...]

Judge declines to dismiss Harmony suit

Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Jody Luebbers allowed a lawsuit to close the school continue over the state's claims that the charter school allegedly failed to make workers' compensation premium and unemployment compensation fund payments.

Economic Stimulus: No-Go; Unemployment Benefits: Go

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008

No cost estimate is yet available for Public Law 110-449, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008. The new law extends unemployment benefits by at least seven weeks in every state, and by 13 weeks in states with unemployment rates of at least 6%.

The Road To 60-- And Unemployment Insurance

DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008

How can we really know how Georgia's embattled reactionary senator, Saxby Chambliss, would have voted on the unemployment compensation extension bill Friday? With Georgia's unemployment level rising to 7%-- the highest since 1992-- Chambliss, who didn't bother going to Washington to vote, claims he would have voted for the extension. Georgia voters, who will decide between Chambliss' implied pledge...