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Unemployment benefits will lapse for a million more Americans if Congress doesn't act by the end of the year. Will Congress let them expire or find a way to [...]

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The Senate voted 60-40 on Tuesday to move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, 2.5 million of whom have missed checks since the end of May as Republicans and conservative Democrats filibustered several bills to renew the aid. After a final Senate vote, the bill goes to the House, which will vote on Wednesday. [...]

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Senate Republicans, you are killing California. By blocking the vote last month on the Democrats' unemployment benefits bill, you are murdering us. Today you have another chance to do what is right and pass the bill to [...]

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With 120000 people out of work statewide and 6000 a week being knocked off unemployment insurance as a federal bill to extend those benefits languishes in [...]

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After deciding to go back to school part-time, he lost his unemployment benefits. Jim Finn spent 42 years in the outdoor sign business, but then business [...]

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"Extended unemployment benefits is helpful but hardly the booster rocket that's needed to get out of the gravitational pull of this terrible economy," said [...]

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The fifth extension of unemployment benefits failed to pass a voice vote in the Senate on Tuesday. 800000 workers will lose take home cash by the end of [...]

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It is certainly possible, even highly probable, that these government subsidies may be used to hire drones at one of our overseas plants in countries with far more reasonable labor costs (and less stringent child labor laws). [...]

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The Senate voted to overcome a key hurdle to extending U.S. jobless benefits, likely renewing the 99-week period that long-term unemployed people in most parts of the country can qualify for assistance. [...]

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In an interview with San Francisco?s KGO-AM radio yesterday, California?s GOP Senate candidate abandoned her former stance on extending unemployment benefits, indicating she would now ?probably? support the extension if she was elected. [...]

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Congress has not acted to extend federal unemployment benefits beyond this week, so, week by week, more unemployed Georgians will see their financial safety [...]

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, sounds like a reasonable guy when he says that Republicans aren?t against extended unemployment benefits, but merely want them offset with spending cuts elsewhere in the budget. In some circles, that?s the very definition of moderation: I?ll go along with your program, but you have to find the [...]

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YouTube Shows Cassidy's Fight Against Obama Moratorium In House Committee Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats have been berating the Republicans over extending jobless benefits for the unemployed. Yet the House Democrats voted down an amendment to lift Obama?s unlawful ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf. The Republicans want the Democrats to [...]

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The latest on the extension of unemployment benefits, what constitutes an average Manhattan apartment and other consumer-focused items from Tuesday's Times. [...]

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“The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. The people go out and spend the money -- they have to get by from [...]

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When members of Congress return from their Fourth of July break Monday, they'll find a big challenge waiting for them right where they left it. The issue is unemployment -- specifically an extension of benefits for people who've lost their jobs. The debate has turned into a high-stakes, election-year stand-off over deficits. [...]

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Those people are enrolled in a federally financed program providing up to 73 additional weeks of unemployment benefits. About half of those eligible have [...]

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Ten days after Corbett, a Republican, dropped a campaign bombshell - suggesting jobs were out there but many people preferred unemployment benefits [...]

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This is data reported by the states concerning the actual unemployment benefit claims for the week in question. For my purposes here, I will use the [...]

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Unemployment benefits are helping to cover some of her expenses, she said. But when those benefits start running out, “It's going to be tough,” she said. [...]

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Victory obscures defeat. Republicans, wielding their filibuster, managed to take a Jobs Bill - weaken it to an Unemployment Benefits and State and Local Relief Bill - weaken that to a bare Unemployment Benefits Bill - and then weaken that even that bill. [...]

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The unemployment benefits extension bill is here and the filibuster was lifted after a vote in the senate. The bill is said to be going to vote in the [...]

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Photo: AP This morning, President Obama called on the Senate, both Republicans and Democrats, to pass the bill extending unemployment benefits for millions [...]

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Patty Murray in an embarrassing flip-flop last night on the issue of extending unemployment benefits. After the Senate voted on the extension, Rossi issued [...]

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Congress has approved a six-month extension of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. On a vote of 272 to 152, the Democratic majority in the House gave the measure final approval and sent it on to the White House, where aides said President Obama plans to sign it immediately. [...]