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Obama's $860 Billion Tax Cut Deal: By the Numbers

(Dec. 17) -- President Barack Obama will sign an $860 billion tax deal this afternoon that extends the Bush-era tax cuts by two years and grants unemployed Americans up to 13 additional months of benefits. In a 277-148 vote, the House passed the bill Thursday after the Senate approved an identical measure the day...

Jobless Benefits Extension Deadline Is Here: Will Congress Act?

(Nov. 29) -- Will they or won't they? Unemployment benefits for people who have been out of work for six months or longer will officially expire Tuesday at midnight unless Congress steps in and approves another extension. Blocked in large part by Republicans, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to muster enough...

Unemployment Benefits Extension Nixed: 6 Things You Need to Know

(Nov. 18) -- It's not the holiday message that millions of unemployed Americans were hoping to hear. In a largely party-line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives failed today to pass an extension of unemployment benefits that would have guaranteed delivery of checks to the jobless through Feb. 28. Republicans argued...

Glenn Beck Blasts 99er Movement

(Aug. 19) -- Glenn Beck probably won't be joining a 99er protest anytime soon. On Monday, the Fox News television commentator lambasted the 99er movement -- composed of the 1.4 million long-term unemployed Americans who have exhausted the full 99 weeks of emergency federal unemployment aid -- for not seeking out work and...

Opinion: Onward Toward an Entitlement Society

(July 22) -- The most recent debate in Congress and among commentators over the extension of unemployment benefits caused a lot of nasty back-and-forth about the merits of doing so. Would it discourage people from looking for work, extending the jobless problem? Should the extension be paid for with cuts elsewhere? Will it...