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Senate votes to renew tax credit for first-time home buyers

Source: Washington Post
Washington : DC : USA | about 1 month ago  
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The measure was attached to a bill that would provide 20 weeks of unemployment benefits in more than two dozen states with jobless rates above 8.5 percent and up to 14 weeks elsewhere. Another provision in the bill would allow businesses that had operating losses in 2008 and 2009 to seek refunds for taxes...
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  • News Source: Kansas City Star | about 1 month ago
    Legislation that would extend and expand the homebuyer tax credit is awaiting the signature of President Obama. The credit would run through next spring, though consumers would need to commit on a home purchase by late April. In addition to extending...
  • News Source: Star Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government...As part of the government's efforts to encourage people to spend money to help revive the economy, the House voted 403-12 Thursday to expand a popular tax credit for homebuyers.
  • News Source: The Hill | about 1 month ago
    The White House said Thursday, shortly after the House passed the bill, that Obama will sign the bill that "builds on Recovery Act provisions aimed at spurring new job creation." The Bureau of Labor Statistics will announce what is expected to be an...
  • News Source: Arizona Republic | about 1 month ago
    Congress on Thursday decisively approved an extension of unemployment benefits for almost two million people out of work nearly a year or more as the U.S. continues to lose jobs. The White House quickly announced that President Barack Obama on Friday...
  • News Source: Baltimore Sun | about 1 month ago
    The House today overwhelmingly approved legislation to provide additional aid to the unemployed, particularly in hard-hit states such as California, and an extension and expansion of a tax credit for home buyers. President Obama will sign the measure...
  • News Source: Fox News | about 1 month ago
    The House approved an extension of jobless benefits and a tax credit for home buyers on Thursday, sending the measure to President Barack Obama for signature...The bill, approved unanimously by the Senate late Wednesday, extends unemployment benefits...
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  • Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
    Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to in.
  • Blog Source: www.savingtoinvest.com
    The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a $45 billion plan to expand a tax credit for first-time home buyers, extend jobless benefits and provide tax refunds to money-losing companies. The bill (H.R.3548) now goes to the House of ...
  • Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.com
    Congress is one vote away from sending the president legislation that continues aid to more than a million jobless people and extends tax breaks to hundreds of thousands of prospective homebuyers and struggling businesses. ... The legislation,
  • Blog Source: cbs11tv.com
    The out-of-work in states with jobless rates at 8.5 percent or greater would get six weeks on top of that. It would also extend for seven months an $8000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers that was enacted as part of the $787 billion ...
  • Blog Source: fiscallyfitnhr.blogspot.com
    U.S. Senate Votes to Expand Homebuyer's Tax Credit and Extend Unemployment Benefits. U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd's office announced late Wednesday that the Senate passed legislation to extend the $8000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers ... Dodd, a
  • Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
    The bill bogged down in the Senate, first when senators from states with lower jobless rates demanded that the extension apply to all people exhausting their benefits, then with negotiations over adding the homebuyer and business tax credits. Then,
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