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Battle Between David Broder And Harry Reid Heats Up: Broder Comments 'Mind-Boggling'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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David Broder simply doesn't understand the way that today's Senate operates, Jim Manley concluded on Wednesday. Manley, the senior communications advi...

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Reid Picks Pelosi's Pocket To Pay For Business Tax Break

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Tax Breaks, Nancy Pelosi, Unemployment Insurance, Politics News

In order to fund business tax breaks and an extension of a first-time homebuyers tax credit this week, Harry Reid swiped one of Nancy Pelosi's revenue...

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Senate Unemployment Extension Passes Unanimously After Four Weeks Of GOP Obstruction

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless wi...

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Orszag Curiously Circumspect About Unemployment Insurance Extension (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Charlie Rose, Politics News

Appearing on the Charlie Rose show Tuesday night, White House budget chief Peter Orszag was surprisingly noncommittal about the idea of extending unem...

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First-Time Jobless Claims Drop Less Than Expected

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The number of people claiming jobless benefits for the first time dropped less than expected last week, evidence that the labor mar...

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There's No Such Thing As A Republican Filibuster: It's Time to Deliver

Andy Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Andy Stern, Filibuster, Senate Democrats, Public Option, Health Care, Republican Health Care Plan, Let the Republicans Filibuster, Republican Filibuster, No Such Thing as a Republican Filibuster, What Is a Republican, Huffington Stern, Can Republican Filibuster?, Health Reublican Fillibuster, Andy Stern How Many 60, Andy Stern Harry Reid, United Health Care, Unemployment Insurance, Republican News, How Does a Modern Filibuster Work, Andy Stern Filibuster, Why Don't Democrats Call Republican Filibuster on Healthcare, Would the Republicans Filibuster Health Care, Republican on Health Care Reform, Politics News

There is no such thing as a Republican filibuster. Right now, the only ones who can stand in the way of giving the American people meaningful health care reform are our elected Democratic Senators.

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Shall We Take This Opportunity To Eradicate the Middle Class?

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Unemployment, Employee Free Choice Act, Jobs, Health Care, Unemployment Insurance, Stimulus, Minimum Wage, Steven Davis, Politics News

Despite the overblown criticism of the latest stimulus jobs numbers, job creation is lagging in the United States and the economy is clearly not working for the majority of American middle-class households.

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Unemployment Insurance Extension Blocked By GOP -- Again

Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Last week, Senate Democratic leaders rolled out a proposal to extend unemployment insurance by 14 weeks -- with an extra six weeks thrown in for those...

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New Jobless Claims Fall More Than Expected To 550K

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The ending of the recession is reviving global trade, increasing U.S. imports by a record amount in July and boosting foreign deman...

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Unemployed -- And Crossing Her Fingers For A Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

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Health insurance is mighty important to three-time cancer survivor Mary Duffy, of Redwood City, California. So when she lost her job in June 2008, she...

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Letters From The Jobless: "I'm Not Exactly Sure Where I Went Wrong"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Economy, Unemployment Insurance, Jobs, Down-Not-Out, Recession, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Business News

People send me e-mails every day in response to items I've written about unemployment that ask for readers' stories. It's a simple thing: people are r...

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Good Luck Getting Private Insurance For Unemployment

nytimes.com | RON LIEBER | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Insurance for Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Business News

The latest figures from the Department of Labor show that 247,000 more jobs disappeared last month. And right about now, many of the people who had th...

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New Jobless Claims Drop By 38,000, Beating Estimates

AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — In a positive sign for the economy, companies are laying off fewer workers as they prepare to ramp up production to replenish their...

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Plugging Along At 62 With Lots Of Debt, No Job And No Credit

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Cards, Unemployed, Unemployment, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Credit Crisis, Down-Not-Out, Bearing Witness 2.0, Bearing Witness, Business News

James O'Connell of California wrote the Huffington Post in response to an item about credit card companies tightening payment requirements for cardhol...

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1.5 Million To Exhaust Unemployment Benefits By The End Of The Year

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Economy, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Insurance, Stimulus, Recession, Business News

More than 500,000 Americans will exhaust their unemployment benefits by the end of September. And by the end of the year, the number will near 1.5 mil...

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The Face of Unemployment in New York City

William C. Thompson, Jr. | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Job Growth, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Unemployment Insurance, Economic Crisis, New York News

I found that the recession's impacts have fallen most heavily on a number of specific groups including men, African-Americans, prime-age workers, and the well-educated.

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How Much Will Bobby Jindal Hate the Unemployed Tonight?

Bill Scher | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unemployment Insurance, Jindal, Republican Governors, Economic Stimulus Package, Haley Barbour, Bobby Jindal, Republican Governors Stimulus, 100 Days, Obama Speech, Obama Administration, Obama State of the Union, Jindal Speech, Barack Obama, State of the Union, Politics News

When Gov. Jindal formally responds to the president tonight, and introduces himself to much of America, will he make central his bizarre crusade against increased unemployment benefits?

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Rethinking the Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Measures included in the stimulus bill should be the beginnings of a new policy regime that works to include more Americans in the middle class, not a passing reprieve in a time of economic gloom.

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Jumpstart the Economy -- Invest in State and Local Governments

Gerald McEntee | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Economic Stimulus, Medicaid, Governors, Economy, Unemployment Insurance, Barack Obama Governor's Meeting, Barack Obama Governor's Conference, Politics News

President-elect Barack Obama holds an unprecedented meeting tomorrow with the nation's governors to outline key steps that need to be taken to revive the nation's economy.

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Since Bad Government Costs the Same as Good, Let's Choose Good

Jared Bernstein | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Fema, John McCain, Unemployment Insurance, Foreclosure, Small Government, Fda, Politics News

Under a McCain or any other modern conservative administration, it's not that there would be noticeably less government -- it's that there would be worse government.

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Tips On How To Stop The Downfall

New York Times | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Unemployed, Stimulus, Unemployment Insurance, Economy, Business News

America's economy is headed for a major slowdown. Whether there is a recession (two quarters of negative growth) is less important than the fact that ...

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