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COLUMBUS -- Ohio's unemployment compensation fund went broke on Monday, Jan. 12, requiring the state to borrow $50 million this week from the federal government to continue paying benefits to unemployed workers. The federal government has approved lending Ohio $500 million to cover benefits for January and February. The last time Ohio had to do such borrowing was in the 1980s.
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COLUMBUS -- In yet another sign of the deteriorating economy, for the first time in 20 years Ohio must borrow hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to pay benefits to unemployed workers. The state has asked U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao for a $550 million advance to cover expected shortfalls in December, January and February in the state unemployment compensation trust fund.
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JEFFERSON CITY (AP) -- Thousands of people in Missouri who have been unemployed for more than a year soon will lose their jobless benefits, marking a significant victory for Republican fiscal hawks who are crusading against government spending. When eligibility ends tomorrow, Missouri will become the only state to voluntarily quit a federal stimulus program that offers extended benefits. Michigan, Arkansas and Florida also recently took steps to cut back on money going to the unemployed, although they targeted state benefits instead.
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We've been in a crisis for over a year," said Lorraine Mora-Chavez, laid off in early 2009 from her job as a researcher and an advisor to Latino students at DePaul University. Now worried that her extended unemployment benefits might end, and facing likely foreclosure on a house she can't sell, Mora-Chavez asked with plaintive anger, "Where's the fight back? Despite union lobbying for federal aid for the jobless and efforts to organize unemployed workers, like the Machinists' online "U-Cubed" (Ur Union of the Unemployed) project, there has been little organized political action by or for the jobless. But unions could - and largely do not - organize their own unemployed former members as a protest force. Both community organizations and the AFLCIOs community affiliate, Working America ...
... the right-wing attack on big government and deficit spending. Unemployment in the United S...
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As of this past week, I will have served as the 16th District's representative to Washington for a little over 11 months. Compared to the glacial pace of business in our nation's capital, that is a blink of an eye. For me, it has felt much longer. It is safe to say that after almost a year on the job the Washington insiders do not like me very much. They remain interested in the status quo, while I continue to push for changes to the way Washington does business. So far, I have introduced several bi-partisan pieces of legislation I believe will begin to get us headed back in the right direction. One is the "EMPLOY Act." It gives businesses an incentive to hire those seeking work by reducing the overhead costs of employment, while simultaneously affording workers an opportunity to earn m...
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Unemployed workers were threatened with lower benefits in the middle of a recession, and employers faced higher payroll taxes, all because Trenton politicians for years diverted billions of dollars from the fund set up to pay state unemployment benefits. That forced New Jersey to borrow $1.75 billion from the federal government and make emergency changes to the unemployment law earlier this year so benefits would still be paid amid record unemployment.
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I wonder what the 20,000 unemployed Utahns are feeling when they hear why their governor and lawmakers turned away $100 million of federal unemployment benefits. It's one thing for people to lose a job and struggle to keep looking for one, but it is another thing for politicians to keep kicking them while they are down. When Utah Senate President Waddoups tells them, "It's tax money, and people need to be weaned off of the government paying for everything, " or when Gov. Herbert believes there are plenty of jobs to be filled, it's demoralizing, wrong and mean spirited.
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Nearly 21,000 out-of-work West Virginians are expected to get a 20-week extension to their federal unemployment benefits, thanks to a filibuster-breaking vote cast by the states newest senator. The bill, which would extend benefits for many of the unemployed to Nov. 30, cleared a hurdle in the Senate Tuesday evening, with Sen. Carte Goodwin, D-W.Va., casting the 60th vote needed to end a Republican- led filibuster. Under Senate rules, Republicans were allowed up to 30 hours before a final vote was cast. They used much of that time to try to alter the bill, hoping to offset the $34 billion cost of the benefit extension. The final vote on the bill was taken just before 7 p.m. Wednesday. The House was expected to go along with Senate changes to the bill on Thursday and send it to the presi...
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By Ben Feller The Associated Press
..., hiring and an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. Despite his promise ... support in a time of divided government. The White House put the price of the plan at $447...
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Turn to any page in the Wall Street Journal or flip to your local news station, and you will read or hear about organizations trying to cut back in today's bleak economy, and for many human resource departments that means traditional cost cutting practices, such as hiring freezes or cuts on training programs and fringe benefits. But, cost cutting doesn't have to mean cutting back. Employing people with disabilities may be an excellent source of productive talent for your company. This group of individuals can help your business decrease turnover and increase the bottom line. There are 19.8 million working-age Americans with disabilities, and this number continues to grow as more soldiers with disabilities return home from the Middle East. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2003 that app...
... 62 percent of these individuals are unemployed. The National Organization on Disability reported ... financial incentives from the federal government:. * Reducing turnover: The U.S. Chamber of Commerc...
