News Source: The Journal-World
| about 1 month ago
Paul Sakuma/AP Photo An unemployed worker waits for a job Friday at the Day Worker Center of Mountain View, in Mountain View, Calif. Washington The Obama administration is considering steps to ease the burdens of laid-off workers, including...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
The House on Friday approved legislation that would provide 13 additional weeks of benefits to states with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or higher. Democratic leaders in the Senate are pushing a measure that would also provide aid to states that...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
A Republican Michigan congresswoman said Saturday President Barack Obama 's economic stimulus plan has been a bust. Rep. Candice Miller said in the GOP's weekly radio address that cutting business taxes would energize small businesses much more...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 month ago
President Barack Obama on Saturday used his weekly radio address to tout a health-insurance overhaul making its way through Congress, calling it a critical step toward reducing the nation's deficit and boosting an ailing economy. Changes being...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
That program allows workers to keep their company's health insurance plan for 18 months after they leave their job, if they pay the premiums. -extending a tax credit for first-time home buyers...In his weekly radio and Internet video address Saturday,...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
by Mark Silva "Employment is often the last thing to come back after a recession,'' President Barack Obama notes today, in his weekly address, the day after the Labor Department reported 9.8 percent unemployment in September, the highest rate since...