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Should We Extend Unemployment Insurance?

(July 15) -- With long-term unemployment at an all-time high, unemployment insurance benefits for many of the nation's unemployed are running out, meaning they have lost this meager source of income. This includes the 1.4 million jobless workers who have exceeded the 99-week limit on benefits. The Senate has resisted calls...

We Need to Continue Working to Create Jobs

(July 2) -- This past June, the economy gained 83,000 jobs in the private sector. Overall, employment declined by 125,000 and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.5 percent. The job losses are largely a result of 225,000 temporary census workers ending their service. However, over the first half of the year, we've seen the...

Lawmaker's Impasse Ends, Senate OKs Jobless Aid

WASHINGTON (March 2) -- The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm. Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been...

Bunning Agrees to Allow Vote on Jobless Bill

(March 2) -- Senate Democrats reached a deal with Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky late Tuesday to end his filibuster of a bill to temporarily extend unemployment benefits in exchange for a vote on a measure to offset the $10 billion cost of the bill

Who's Affected by Senate Squabbling? A Long List

WASHINGTON (March 2) -- Washington's political squabbles hit home this week for unemployed workers, some construction workers, doctors who treat senior citizens and Department of Transportation employees. Federal aid that affects them was held up starting Monday when Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., single-handedly held up...