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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k’ not sure Mr. Clark, I think/thought I was remembering the 20 week extension(tier3?) attached to the military appropriations bill under Bush.
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Everyone please remember that WE are the people. Not any political party.
C’mon people at least vote at the top right of the page in favor of this bill. 1261 views today, 67/1 votes….pitiful. I know it’s largely symbolic, but hey…if you can’t support it here, what’s that say about supporting this endeavor elsewhere?
VOTE DAMNIT
Either support this bill or don’t support, but at least vote!!!
I just voted for it. :)
Long time no see :)
Thank you JohnB, you have been gone for a spell.
I’ve been keeping busy, trading stocks to get by, since I can’t find work. Last November my mother (lives with me), got a blood clot in her lungs. I happened to be right next to her when it happned (she passed out while I ws getting her into her bed). I called 911, they got her to the hospital. Her doctor said had I waited she would have died. He saw the scan of her lungs and saw where the clot was. GOD’s timing. If this had happened any other time, if I had been in another room or even at my computer ( a way from her), she could have died. She’s doing great now, even better then before. She’s 85. She spent a week in the hospital and 2 months in skiled nursing (her insurance paid for every thing :)
Hi John B,
We were wondering if you had found a job. I guess too many of us have not found anything. So here we are again.
Glad to hear you were able to take care of your mother in the nick of time. It was definitely providential that you were there. Wow, she’s 85! You’re lucky to still have her around.
We have a long way to go with this hoped-for unemployment extension. If it gets approved, we still have to wait for EDD to send the checks. I really hope this all works out.
Mrs. Chang
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We need some votes over here big time too!
http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/112_HR_589.html#commentform
For those in Calif, remember to keep logging into Cal Job every now and then. EDD will know if you’re unemployed if you keep logging in. If you don’t, they could remove your profile, and that could make it much harder to get any extended benefits.
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Thank you.
We need to show a little force to my Libertarian friends I think.
We can do that if you want. Wouldn’t want to tread on your turf there fuzzy :-)
Did I see you on twitter old man?
Are you going to check your email this week?
Give me a call.
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Thank you people. I see it is up to 76% for this bill on Washington Watch now.
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But the problem appears to have deeper roots. In the 1990s, the labor force grew by 1.3 percent a year. Last decade, that figure dropped to 1 percent. And the Congressional Budget Office predicts that over the next decade, it will grow by only 0.7 percent.
Taken together, the slow growth of the labor force and the low participation rate mean that the offiical unemployment rate, now at an already high 9 percent, underplays the actual rate of joblessness even more than such official figures usually do. Â That’s because the official rate doesn’t include workers who have grown discouraged and stopped looking for work—and that number appears to be unusually high.
Great News Everybody!!!
One of “Michael’s Plan” volunteers, Gerry DePeitro has just been invited to be interviewed on the Ed Show on Monday Night at 10:00 PM (EST). If you saw the video from Ed’s show Wednesday night, Gerry is the lady that sold her ring that her deceased husband gave her for $20 just to get through another day.
Way to go Gerry, and way to go Ed!!! – we can’t thank Ed enough for his support of this story and giving it the much needed air time that it so rightly deserves! Let’s do all we can to get Ed’s ratings through the roof!!!
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Great news:):):)……. all their quantitative bullshit disguises the real essence of what we are going through……..they don’t care that we are marginalized…….. the 20 million with their families is at leasst 60 million (since number seem to be manipulated)
To them, we are the unfortunate casualty in this “Great Recession”…..it’s a joke.
Obama acts like he’s in a vacume….. Each and every one of us is irreplaceably important….don’t let the indignities wear you down…..
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You know the spin game….
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$1.3 BILLION dollars per year given to Egypt from the US for decades just for their military……
But our own people can be left to die on the streets by the millions?
In following the progress of the unemployment extension legislation it is revealed that it is being identified as HR 589 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2011. The emergency legislation was introduced Wednesday by Congresswoman Barbara Lee to the House Ways and Means Committee.
This is an alert. It is imperative that every 99er work to flood the Ways and Means Committee with emails demanding that the legislation expediently be moved through the committee and onto the House floor. These are the individuals who sit on the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Ways and Means Committee. Also call the Capitol switchboard at 1-866-220-0044 and ask to speak to these members. Don’t ask, demand, that HR 589 be put through.
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