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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I just went to see what one 99er site had to say and I thought I made a mistake and landed on some militia’s site. Jeeze!
This is going to be a really long election season…
A funny bit on the new unemployed,
www.hulu.com/watch/225440/the-simpsons-love-is-a-many-strangled-thing#s-p1-so-i0
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According to an article recently we now have approximately 44 million people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Its time for Congress to start thinking about taking care of our own country. The answer is Jobs, jobs and jobs.
Obama will be holding an interactive town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Every 99er reading this needs to participate in this town hall meeting. ”I hope you’ll take a break from either friending or de-friending each other to RSVP at Facebook.com/WhiteHouse,” Obama says in the following video.
Finally President Obama want to address us 99ers, …….what gives?
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ok “Was”, you peaked my interest, where’s the other 8?
Ummmm…there is a link posted…
Or you can try this one if you didn’t like that link to the story :)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-doomsday-trends-america-cant-survive-2011-04-19
We are the butt of the elite’s newest joke, Again
www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/20/fla-job-center-criticized-passing-capes-unemployed/?test=latestnews
Jeez, that has to be the stupidest PR campaign in the world, ever. Just think how many gas cards they could have given out to training students, how many books they could have paid for, how many trips to interviews, how many hours they could have put into searching for employers for the unemployed. Or for that matter, actually hired someone at the center part-time! Disgusting.
What the hell is wrong with those people!
An article indicated that the share of Americans who said they plan to purchase a home in the next six months tumbled by 23 percent in March. This doesn’t sound like we are recovering yet.
“The New Republican Landscape” On Friday, nearly unanimous House Republicans showed just how far their mainstream has been dragged to the right. They approved on strict party lines the most regressive social legislation in many decades, embodied in a blueprint by the budget chairman, Paul Ryan. The vote, from which only four Republicans (and all Democrats) dissented, would have been unimaginable just eight years ago to a Republican Party that added a prescription drug benefit to Medicare.
Mr. Ryan called the vote “our generation’s defining moment,” and indeed, nothing could more clearly define the choice that will face voters next year
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/opinion/18mon1.html?_r=3
Tell me lies…tell me sweet little lies….
The government says there are 4.4 Americans for every available job in America.
Micky “D’s” has 125 people show up for 3 or 4 jobs.
Ratio for 3 jobs=41.66 applicants per job
Ratio for 4 jobs=31.25 applicants per job
Micky “D’s” makes a big deal out of hiring 50,000 people…
however: Though the 50,000 jobs are new, McDonald’s usually staffs up for summer anyway, and it’s constantly gaining and losing employees. It added 50,000 new workers in April last year, so Tuesday’s blitz amounts to typical hiring, albeit compressed into a day.
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Yes Nancy, I do know that & the point I was trying to make is that the real ratio is, I believe, a hell of a lot higher than 4.4 to 1. As I said, tell me lies….
Yes, I know what you mean. Even if statistically accurate, the 1:4.4 thing really doesn’t tell the story of what it’s like to find a job out there. Maybe the BLS should put more emphasis on one of their other statistics—like the 250,000 who are falling off EUC every WEEK this year. Out of those, no one really knows how many found jobs, but if that ratio is actually correct, that means that out of those finishing benefits, 770,000 more people per month are still without jobs and now without support. What will that mean by the end of this year???
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After hearing about Grover Norquist I started to do a little research on him, and how powerful he is in shaping Republican agenda.
The first thing that I was a little shocked at was learning about all the Republicans in DC that signed a contract with him stating that they would NEVER support ANY tax increase for any reason on any person or corporation. Even if it was making big corporations pay their share of taxes by cutting loopholes.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=TAXPAYER_PROTECTION_PLEDGE
The next thing I found was this,
Norquist described three key planks of his agenda for Bush’s second term as President as being aimed at crippling the financial base of the Democratic Party. First, he told Walker, is tort reform which would mean “trial lawyers have fewer ways to get rich and can’t give as much money to the Democratic Party”Secondly, he said, would be legislative changes making it harder for unions to provide funding to political parties, a measure aimed primarily aimed at cutting funding to the Democratic Party. Finally, the promotion of free trade which further weakens the influence of unions.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grover_Norquist
Hmmm…attacking unions was planned back then…
This is the guy that all the Republicans signed a contact with,
“My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn’t need the goddamn government for anything,” he said describing members of the “Leave-Us-Alone Coalition”. (IRA is the acronym for Individual Retirement Account, a privately held superannuation account).
I used to cringe every time I heard that guy’s name, still do. And wondered why he got so much press. Lately I don’t see that much of him. Maybe it’s because I don’t have all the cable I used to get, but then if he’s less visible in the media, he’s probably more dangerous that way, sort of like Rove, still a force when not in the limelight.
Take at look at all the people that signed his pledge to never agree to any tax increase of any kind for any reason.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/41212011/Taxpayer-Protection-Pledge-Signers-for-the-112th-Congress
There was a big thing in NH a few years ago about signing the pledge violates the NH Constitution.