GOP Blocks Reauthorization Of 'Important Social Safety Net Program'
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday tried to push a three-month extension of a stimulus bill jobs program that is set to expire on Thursday, jeopardi...
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday tried to push a three-month extension of a stimulus bill jobs program that is set to expire on Thursday, jeopardi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Siobhan Kolar can't believe that thousands of jobs, including her own with an unemployment advocacy nonprofit called Chicago Jobs with Justice, are on...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Jaquayla Burton's job will end this week unless the Senate does an about-face and decides to preserve a welfare-to-work program that created more than...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has revived "tax extenders" legislation that, in addition to providing a plethora of business tax cuts, would close a loopho...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. Senator Bob Casey joined Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in calling for a one-year extension of a subsidized jobs program, highlighting a lette...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Advocates of a welfare-to-work program that has created an estimated 240,000 jobs are lobbying frantically to get Congress to reauthorize funding for ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Advocates of a welfare-to-work program created by last year's stimulus bill are calling on Congress not to jeopardize some 240,000 jobs by letting the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Senate Republicans Thursday for failing to reauthorize funding for a subsidized jobs program that has created 240,0...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress is set to increase unemployment by not reauthorizing a fund for a subsidized jobs program that will expire on September 30, jeopardizing 240,...
LaDonna Pavetti | Posted 05.25.2011
The TANF Emergency Fund provides jobs at a very low cost. But if the Senate doesn't act, most of the people who've gotten work through the program will soon become unemployed.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011