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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3.9 Million Americans Ran Out Of Unemployment Benefits In 2010: Report
Last year, 3.9 million Americans ran out of unemployment insurance benefits, according to a new analysis provided to HuffPost by the National Employment Law Project.
Those 3.9 million are not necessarily still unemployed, and not all of them are necessarily “99ers” — people who exhausted the maximum 99 weeks of benefits currently available in 25 states — but the number offers a dramatic reminder that the longest-ever unemployment lifeline is still not long enough for some Americans to climb out of the deepest jobs hole since the Great Depression.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10/2010-unemployment-benefits-exhausted_n_820957.html
Howdy friend! Imagine me finding you here. What a surprise (NOT)! Ok pal, let’s get this one revved-up and moving into the signed into law category!!!
Am I actually reading about possible Republican support for this?
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http://www.mlive.com/jobs/index.ssf/2011/02/rep_lee_looks_for_republican_support_to.html
The link is safe. I scanned it.
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Agreed!
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So, you’re going to “DEMAND” that those who are working and paying taxes give those that are unemployed money to eat? That sounds like the USSR before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
We the People of the United States of America, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We spend 160 Billion dollars a year on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We spend 70 Billion dollars a year on the budget for homeland security. I won’t even discuss how much we blow on the defense department. Just when did “provide for the common defense” start to override all of the other ideals expressed in the Constitution???
Good question, how about Amendment 10 of the Bill of Rights: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
So, my question is, where in the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, or the Bill of Rights does it say you have a right to a home, or to health care, or to education, or a job, or ANYTHING except “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”?
We have a right to breathe. We have a right to be free from a tyrannical government. We have a right to pursue happiness. Other than that, I don’t think we have a right to much, including unemployment insurance or internet/cell phones/eating at fast food places/cable/satellite/etc. (especially if we’re on unemployment insurance).
When we have 113 weeks of unemployment, will we then hear calls for 125? Where does it end?
*Side note, that same quote was used as a basis for Social Security….how’s that working out?
The Preamble to the Constitution as our county’s mission statement, it explains how we, the people, of the United States, are supposed to act to be good American’s. I believe that most American’s feel this way, but that the few, the powerful, and the selfish just want it to be all about them. So I ask what part of the following are you having trouble getting your arms around?
We the People?
In Order to form a more perfect Union?
Establish Justice?
Insure domestic Tranquility?
Promote the general Welfare?
And secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity?
Do you think the “greed is good” mentality is what will support those ideals mentioned above or do you think it will only come by caring about your neighbor in the likes of “what you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me” While working, I cared about my fellow man. Now that I am unemployed, I still care about my fellow man; I just don’t have access to the same resources to do anything about it now!
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fakk, you can’t be that dumb, are you really that dumb, all kidding aside.
You are questioning if people have the INALENABLE right not UNALIENABLE, to shelter, food, cars, education etc. What planet have you been on. Do you know what has been going on in our country over the past century. Do you realize how enslaved we have been to big corporations. Do you realize how sons and daughters have been sent to war to fight for their economic interests?
Are you even beginning to comprehend yet how the deck has been stacked against us? Do you understand that our tax money has been going overseas to foreign governments in a scam where the money never reaches the impoverished in those nations but instead is paid off to puppet governments and half of it is funneled back into the bank accounts of the greedy aristocracy corporate owners in this country who run the government. Bush’s right hand man was the former CEO of Merill Lynch.
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Adamaiken,
You do know we’re not Bahrain, or Egypt, or any other country except America right? I ask, because it doesn’t matter what they’re doing, we have to make up our mind as to what we’re going to do. Now, you’re talking about reparations. But for what? For allowing people to receive loans through anti-redlining laws? For buying too many bad loans to keep the working class afloat and in homes? For not taxing the rich 90% of their pay? What reparations are you owed and where in the Constitution is it that you are to be paid? What damage has been imposed? The government has police laws to protect your life. We need to limit government to protect our liberty and to increase our chances for our pursuit of happiness.
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Adamaiken,
C’mon, don’t be sad that you have no good argument. Like I said before, I hope for a true republic, a rule of law, where the federal government is limited, and state governments make most of the laws, and the good will of the people in each state watchdog those legislatures for corruption and tyranny. In saying that, our constitution can be amended. I have no problem with making a constitutional amendment granting 10 years of unemployment if that’s what the people in the “several states” vote for.
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After two years of Obama…Here’s your change!
January 2009 TODAY % chg SourceAvg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3Unemployment rate, blacks
12.6%
15.8%
25.4%
3
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3Unemployment rate, blacks
12.6%
15.8%
25.4%
3Number of unemployed
11,616,000
14,485,000
24.7%
3
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3Unemployment rate, blacks
12.6%
15.8%
25.4%
3Number of unemployed
11,616,000
14,485,000
24.7%
3Number of fed. Employees, ex. Military (curr = 12/10 prelim)
2,779,000
2,840,000
2.2%
3
Avg.. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S.
$1.83
$3.44
84%
1Crude oil, European Brent (barrel)
$43..48
$99..02
127.7%
2Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel)
$38..74
$91..38
135.9%
2Gold: London (per troy oz.)5
$853.25
$1,369.50
60.5%
2Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL
$3.56
$6.33
78.1%
2Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL
$9.66
$13..75
42.3%
2Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb.Fob
$13..37
$35..39
164.7%
2Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall
7.6%
9.4%
23.7%
3Unemployment rate, blacks
12.6%
15.8%
25.4%
3Number of unemployed
11,616,000
14,485,000
24.7%
3Number of fed. Employees, ex. Military (curr = 12/10 prelim)
2,779,000
2,840,000
2.2%
3
Real median household income(2008 v 2009)
$50,112
$49,777
-0.7%
4
Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10)
31,983,716
43,200,878
35.1%
5
Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10)
7,526,598
9,193,838
22.2%
6
Number of long-term unemployed
2,600,000
6,400,000
146.2%
3
Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009)
13.2%
14.3%
8.3%
4
People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009)
39,800,000
43,600,000
9.5%
4
U.S.. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings
5
9
n/a
10
Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10)
29.9
23.5
-21.4%
11
Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date)
140
164
17.1%
12
U.S.. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate
89.76
82.03
-8.6%
2
U.S.. Money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)
1,575.1
1,865.7
18.4%
13
U.S.. Money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim)
8,310.9
8,852.3
6.5%
13
National debt, in trillions
$10..627
$14..052
32.2%
14