Monday, May 21, 2012

Unemployment extended benefits

  • Art Bailly of San Mateo, Calif., figured he had another couple months worth of unemployment insurance. He was super upset to discover two weeks ago that his benefits would be stopping short.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The declining U.S. jobless rate may soon get another push downward as Americans lose extended unemployment benefits.
  • (Moneynews (blog))
  • The budget for the fiscal 2011 - 2013 biennium (beginning July 1, 2011) made notable progress toward structural balance through steep recurring cuts, including for local aid and employee benefits 1.3% in April 2012. Unemployment, at 6.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • More than 1.1 million California residents received regular or extended unemployment insurance benefits in April. Meanwhile, more than 681,000 have exhausted all benefits, up to the 99-week maximum. Other North Bay counties saw jobless rates dip in April.
  • (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
  • More than 400,000 people have now lost unemployment insurance (UI) since the beginning of the year as twenty-five high-unemployment states have ended their Extended Benefits (EB) program.
  • (OpEdNews.com)
  • Second, the whole set of tax cuts and credits that have been enacted over the last 10 years total up to $400–500B annually will expire on Dec. 31, so they will hit the economy like a ton of bricks if not extended.
  • (ETF Daily News)

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