job creation and unemployment relief act of 2008

• The new deal and modern memory.

... in production, and increases in unemployment. The two economic crises also elicited similar (an... 1988, 1990; Couch and Shughart 1998, 2000, 2008; Shughart 2004, 2009). In so doing, I pay particul... of the New Deal's three stated goals of "relief, recovery and reform." Federal government spending... Act of 1935, thereby authorizing the creation of the WPA, it approved $4 billion in new federal ...

• Southern Economic Journal
• Vol. 77 Nbr. 3, January 2011

• Rep. James L. Oberstar Holds a Hearing On Investing in Infrastructure

...OCTOBER 29, 2008. SPEAKERS: REP. JAMES L. OBERSTAR, ... industry is suffering the highest unemployment rate, 9.9 percent, of any industrial sector, and c..., the House overwhelmingly passed the Job Creation and Unemployment Relief Act of 2008, $61 billion t...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 28, 2009

• Region is ready for economic stimulus.

... over the last four decades, with unemployment jumping to nearly 11 percent in October 2008--the ... that criticism by passing the "Job Creation and Unemployment Relief act of 2008" in late Septe...

• New Hampshire Business Review
• January 02, 2009

• Rep. Scott Garrett Holds a Hearing On the Sec Budget

...In 2008, we saw the consequences of an underfunded and und... more force toward investment and job creation. As a Congress we are charged with looking after t... We brought emergency relief in 37 actions and obtained 57 asset freezes to pre... have places in my District that have unemployment as high as 25 percent. So job creation is very imp...

• Political Transcript Wire
• March 21, 2011

• Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment of H-2B Aliens in the United States

The Department of Labor (the Department) is amending its regulations governing the certification of the employment of nonimmigrant workers in temporary or seasonal non-agricultural employment and the enforcement of the obligations applicable to employers of such nonimmigrant workers. This Final Rule revises the process by which employers obtain a temporary labor certification from the Department for use in petitioning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to employ a nonimmigrant worker in H-2B status. We have also created new regulations to provide for increased worker protections for both United States (U.S.) and foreign workers.

...8 U.S.C. 1184(c)(14)(B). Under the 2008 H-2B regulations published at 73 FR 29942, May 22,... a. Area of substantial unemployment. We proposed to add a definition of area of substa... the employer provides to the SWA for the creation of the SWA job order. We also proposed to cont... give employers a short period of interim relief from the guarantee, when weather or some other cat...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 10038, February 21, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Wage and Hour Division

• Sen. Tom Harkin Holds a Hearing On the Education Budget and Jobs Crisis

... to do, and it proved that state fiscal relief is an effective way to create economic activity an... My state of Alabama, the unemployment rate in Alabama, February 2007, was 3.4 percent. ... rate jumped to 4.2 percent February 2008. February 2009 it had gone up to 8.7 percent. Fe... includes, among other things, the creation and implementation of the Alabama Reading Initiati...

• Political Transcript Wire
• April 19, 2010

• The BP Spill and the Meaning of 'Gross Negligence or Willful Misconduct

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 71-3, April 2011

• AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen, 556 U. S. (2009)

SYLLABUS. OCTOBER TERM, 2008. AT&T CORP. V. HULTEEN. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITE...3d 653, 665666 (2006), the relief plaintiffs request is not retroactive in character... more complicated endeavor, requiring the creation and maintenance of an individual start date for ea... made pregnant women ineligible for unemployment benefits for a period extending from 12 weeks befo...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Notice of Listening Sessions on Implementation of Unemployment Insurance Provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-96)

This notice announces listening sessions designed to gain input from employers, labor organizations, State workforce agencies, and relevant program experts on the implementation of provisions of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 related to Short Time Compensation (STC) and Self Employment Assistance (SEA) programs. Specifically the Department of Labor (Department) is interested in hearing from stakeholders on the following issues: <bullet> Model State legislation to support implementation of the two programs; <bullet> Guidance and technical assistance to States; and <bullet> Reporting requirements. Times and Dates: The listening sessions for the STC and SEA programs are as follows:

...(j) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 to make SEA programs available to recipients of be...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 16074, March 19, 2012
• Notices
• Labor Department

• Rep. Robert C. Scott Holds a Hearing On Gang Issues

...JUNE 10, 2008. SPEAKERS: REP. ROBERT C. SCOTT, D-... of that, and then throw in the vast unemployment characteristic -- and I used to laugh about the un... bill came out, and that was supposed to be relief, R-E-L-I-E-F, and I think we found out that it was... in funding legislation dealing with job creation, we should consider a piece that directly -- you k...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 27, 2009