U.S. Congress - H.R.589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
H.R.589 - Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)
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- Official: To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for additional weeks of first-tier emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Popular: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act as introduced.
- Popular: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 as introduced.
- Short: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011 as introduced.
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No, I wouldn’t assume you to bunk in the same bed with someone you have no romantic interest in, but isn’t sleeping on a blowup air mattress or inside a sleeping bag, or even (if necessary) on blankets on the floor preferable to not knowing where you’re going to sleep the next day? It’s not comfy, but it would be convenient since it’d cost both of you less money to rent and you’d both be secure in housing until the situation changes.
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“…we should just settle for a $9 per hour job… You could not even afford a room and transportation on that job. You would be homeless like so many other working homeless now.” —ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Have you ever tried living on $5.25/hr the last 10 years? The last 20? Whole communities are living on less than $9/hr, such as the community I come from. One of the best jobs in my hometown paid $7.25/hr with a possible 5% increase every year, if you qualified. My friend in my hometown is working for $9/hr at a liquor store, driving an hour each way from home, living with his girlfriend and her son. He doesn’t have internet or cable/satellite, or home phone service and lives in a trailer. But he can afford food and rent and transportation and utilities and such. He’s not homeless. If someone has to bunk with 3 or 4 other people to make living on $9/hr work, then that’s what they have to do.
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You’re 100% correct, you don’t have to accept it or like it and no one wishes the worst for anyone, but the taxpayer doesn’t have an obligation to pay for you to have your own place either, especially since you have a job.
Get a clue, fakk2. . .
Are you not aware of the MASS import of foreign labor over the past 20 years. BS degree holders from India-China-Pakistan left and right while our leaders cry the need for Math and Science professionals to the public.
A 65,000 annual limit has fallen by the wayside to climb to hundreds of thousands of visas issued each year.
WHY ARE THEY ISSUEING THE VISAS DURING THIS RECESSION AT ALL ????
Don’t even get me started on the illegal immigration issue, I live in Houston and can’t even get a laborer’s job – they’d have to pay me legal minimum wage!
WasMiddleClass, you’re in CT ? High cost of EVERYTHING there.
[I grew up in Stamford…]
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@"Someone working minimum wage for 30 years can put enough away during that time period to at least pay for 1 year’s living expenses."
What planet do you live on?
Minimum wage has always been WAY below the poverty level in America.
Do you realize 99ers started running out of benefits almost a year ago?
Do you realize many have been out of work for well over three years?
Do you realize most Americans live paycheck to paycheck?
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is it everyone else’s fault they can’t manage money and save up for retirement or being out of work for an extended period of time
THAT is NOT what I posted!
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Alright fluffy, if you say so. ;P
Alright FAKE2
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“Explain to me why under the last Republican administration did 100% of the income growth in America go to the richest 10%, with 75% going to the elite 1%, while everyone else s income in the other 90% went DOWN?” —No Idea. But I do know that if you’re in your mid-fifties, you could have saved at least $30,000 or more during the last 30 years. This goes for everyone your age, whether they’re working or not. Is it anyone else’s fault they can’t pay their rent because they have no savings even though they’re working with a $50k – $200k household income? No, it’s not. They should’ve planned ahead. They should’ve taken the advice from those who lived through the Great Depression. Those people knew how to make a penny last.
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“The problem is much larger than just what happened over the past few years.”" —Yes it is. That’s why we need a fair tax and a dramatic change in how we’re doing business. We can no longer afford to “go green” since it’s not paying us back. Less than 1% of all energy consumption in America is renewable energy. We need to stop subsidizing this and reinvest the monies elsewhere. We also need to stop regulating businesses so much. Some regulation is great, but over regulation reduces the job market. Let’s have a fair tax which reduces the cost of being in business. That will put hundreds of billions back into businesses to expand or hire more. Also, we’ll be able to compete with overseas jobs. And let’s reduce the cost of regulation to put another $500 billion back into business. And stop fighting wars we can’t afford and so on. We need to change a lot.
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