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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Another 99ers story….
Susan worked for a company selling construction materials for 25 years. The company hit hard times, and she lost her job.
For months she looked for another until her savings, 401k and unemployment benefits were gone.
The day came when the lock on her apartment door was changed, and she was on the street with no place to go. What that reality must have felt like when it hit her, when it hits anybody.
Susan made her way to a shelter and quickly decided it was not the place for her. People were stealing from one another, and she was very uncomfortable sleeping so close to strangers who may or may not have been stable or under the influence.
Here she is in the camp she shares with her boyfriend she met while homeless. Until now, their camp has consisted of only blankets on the ground. The umbrella is a recent addition.
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20110307/NEWS01/103070306/1006/news01/The-Homeless-Among-Us-Poised-polite-face-troubled-times
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Is big oil or Wall Street getting ready to rape America again?
Since the uprising in Libya began last month, gas prices in the U.S. have jumped 29 cents a gallon, while oil prices leapt to the highest levels since 2008. That means Americans are now paying an extra $108 million a day for the same amount of fuel, according to The Associated Press. Analysts remain worried about disruptions to the world’s oil supply, especially if the instability spreads to Saudi Arabia. “There’s perhaps never been a more precarious time for gasoline prices,” says Steve Hargreaves in CNNMoney. Some speculate that gas prices of $7 a gallon (or even higher) might be possible. Could costs at the pump really double? (See a local report about rising gas prices)
Will Wall Street bring America to a screaming halt? Time will tell…America teeters at the edge of oblivion & Wall Street could care less…as long as they get theirs.
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How can we as a people allow ourselves to be pushed down to a point lower than a dog or a cat and just do nothing? To hell with you Barbara Lee and Bobby Scott, the rich are getting more press for their pets than you are getting for us. Come 2012, if the 99ers are still in this deplorable condition you’d better pack your bags and prepare to go back to whatever socialist dung hole you crawled out of. You are not going to win the vote of the 99ers by popping up every four or five months and saying, “I support the 99ers but there is really nothing I can do.” So go and coddle with the illegals and gays as they do have a lot of votes, but you are going to find out the poor ass unemployed Americans have a hell of a lot more.
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NoObama spends 10-15 million moniotring Gahdafi and his people. But he can’t put money towards HR 589 to help stimulate the economy? It’s really a crying shame and everything is so obivious. That it’s beyond comperhension.
House Dems Open To Compromise On 99ers Bill
WASHINGTON — The Democrats in the House of Representatives who are pushing for additional jobless aid for the long-term unemployed say they are willing to compromise with Republican leadership on cutting spending from the budget to prevent the cost of new benefits from adding to the deficit.
In a Wednesday letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) wrote, “We want to work with you to identify how best to finance this legislation and ensure its swift passage.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/09/99ers-house-dems-compromise_n_833545.html
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I spent today working with two other guys cutting down trees for firewood in dense bull briars and deep mud and dragging them out to be cut up and split. One guy is 54 and is a heavy equipment operator. The other is 60 and a carpenter. We were doing that backbreaking labor for low pay, that guys our age shouldn’t even be attempting, because it is the only few days of work any of us could find.
When the steering on the tractor broke as I was trying to get it out of knee deep mud, and we found out it would take a week to order the parts for it, we all said the same thing “how the hell am I going to survive this week”. We sat and talked after about how we can not keep living like this, killing ourselves doing any work we can get for a few days just to try to survive another week as we keep sinking farther and farther in debt.
I know many others in the same situation now. I also know many with no work at all.So much for the famed American dream……..
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Subsidizing the Donor Class
March 8, 2011 – by Donny Shaw
Yesterday I wrote about a bill scheduled for a vote this week that would eliminate a program that provides bridge loans to unemployed homeowners to help them avoid foreclosure. The program has $1 billion in total lending authority, and homeowners are required to pay the government back when they become employed again. House Republicans say they’re going after the program a matter of fiscal responsibility. But here’s the thing — at the same time that they’re trying to cut $1 billion in loans for the unemployed, they’re fighting to protect a more than $100 billion program that provides tax breaks to homeowners, with benefits flowing overwhelmingly and disproportionately to the wealthy.
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2227-Subsidizing-the-Donor-Class
1 minute ago……Wis. GOP bypass Dems, cut collective bargaining
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Senate voted Wednesday night to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, approving an explosive proposal that had rocked the state and unions nationwide after Republicans discovered a way to bypass the chamber’s missing Democrats.
All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget-repair bill” — a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.
The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday separated from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, which spends no money, and a special committee of lawmakers from both the Senate and Assembly approved the bill a short time later.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wisconsin_budget_unions
I think the shits about to hit the fan in WI
I do believe Republicans just designated themselves an endangered species in my home state of Wisconsin. I’m not exactly sure how they were able to do what they just did, but the citizens of Wisconsin will not accept this outcome.
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wstaff, Even though I know what you say is true, I’ve always had a hard time understanding how ill informed the people of America are & how “sheeple” they appear to be. These politicians do what they do in plain sight & no one says a damn thing about it. And then there are the fools like the one below who’s main method of living is to preach the “insanity” of doing the same thing over & over & expecting that to somehow change things.
Sad just sad…is just about right.
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yeah well even with your math being off and congress did as you have suggested you can be sure that they would probably tell Iraq to keep any additional money that would be saved for our own country. This Congress has no interest in keeping America as a whole nation. Sell everything and then run off to a island to be investigated later on the tax payers money. Its clearly a win win for them. The word, “Untouchable” is a clear term for this Congress to hide behind and they are more then aware of what America truly thinks about them.
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You do realize that much of the foreign aid bill is in credits which MUST be spent in the US. Aka $ out of government —> right back into US economy
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H.R. 589: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Expansion Act of 2011
Hundreds of thousands if not millions of American citizens who lost their job through no fault of their own have run out of Unemployment Benefits and are living on zero income.
With only 1 job for every 5 unemployed, many of these “99ers” have no way to keep a roof over their head now and NEED YOUR HELP until jobs are available.
The CBO says unemployment benefits are one of the very BEST ways to stimulate our flailing economy.
Therefore in order to help our economy while saving American lives and in the American spirit of helping our own citizens who are suffering, I implore you to pass H.R. 589 as soon as possible!