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Obama's Tax Deal Really a 'Stealth Stimulus'

But it'll only work if consumers will spend the money

(Newser) - The tax cut deal President Obama struck with Republicans is likely to give a real jolt to the economy, economists tell the Wall Street Journal , which calls the deal “a second, stealth stimulus package.” While the tax cuts themselves may not boost growth much, the extension of unemployment...

Tax Cut Deal May Hinge on House Democrats
Tax Cut Deal May Hinge on House Democrats
analysis
Dec 6, 2010 11:11 AM CST

Tax Cut Deal May Hinge on House Democrats

Biden, Pelosi gear up to fight for Obama-GOP plan

(Newser) - As President Obama and GOP senators iron out a deal on extending the Bush tax cuts, the real fight will be in the House, writes Howard Fineman at the Huffington Post . The Senate's version will have to circle back to the House for approval, and even if all House Republicans...

Obama, GOP Hold Hushed Tax-Cut Talks

President calls for speedy renewal of jobless benefits

(Newser) - Could the president and GOP lawmakers be inching toward compromise ? Working against the clock, Obama and congressional Republicans have been holding behind-the-scenes talks about extending tax cuts—due to expire at year’s end—and renewing expired emergency jobless benefits, and they're making slow and steady progress on the...

Anger Mounts as Millions Lose Jobless Benefits

2M to lose benefits by Christmas as parties hit impasse

(Newser) - As Democrats and Republicans wrangled over tax cuts for the richest Americans, time ran out for millions of people who have been unemployed for up to 99 weeks. Congress has failed to agree on how to extend benefits for the long-term unemployed and some 2 million people who have been...

Jobless Benefits Extension Fails in House

They could expire at the end of November

(Newser) - A vote to extend federally funded unemployment benefits for three months failed to get enough support in the House today, meaning that current benefits could expire on November 30. The bill required a two-thirds vote to reauthorize funding and faced an uncertain future in the Senate had it passed, reports...

Brits to Jobless: Volunteer or Lose Benefits

Goal: 'End the habit of worklessness'

(Newser) - Unemployed Britons may have to volunteer full-time for a month in order to keep their benefits. The plan, to be unveiled this week, is part of a massive overhaul of the country's $300 billion welfare program, notes the Guardian . The goal, says a government source, is to "end the...

Joe Miller: Jobless Benefits Unconstitutional

'Show me the enumerated power,' says Senate candidate

(Newser) - It seems Palin-backed GOP Alaska Senate hopeful Joe Miller is sticking with his anti-benefits stance, big time. The Tea Party favorite yesterday told Fox News' Chris Wallace that jobless benefits are unconstitutional, reports the Raw Story . "The Constitution provides enumerated powers," he said. "Show me the enumerated...

Jobless Claims Hit 9-Month High

Reach 500K mark as employers again cut back

(Newser) - New applications for unemployment insurance reached the half-million mark last week for the first time since November, a sign that employers are likely cutting jobs again as the economy slows. The Labor Department said today that initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 last week to 500,000,...

House Extends Jobless Benefits

Measure now goes to President Obama for his signature

(Newser) - Congress has approved legislation to restore unemployment insurance to people who have been out of work for six months or more, ending a seven-week interruption that caused 2.5 million people to lose benefits averaging about $300 a week. The 272-152 House vote sends the measure to President Obama, who...

Senate Passes Extension of Jobless Benefits

After House vote tomorrow, it goes to President Obama

(Newser) - The Senate this evening passed a bill restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who have been out of work for 6 months or more. It passed 59-39. President Obama is poised to sign the measure into law after a final House vote tomorrow. providing a welcome relief to 2....

New Senator Helps Advance Jobless Benefits

Goodwin provides 60th vote to block GOP delay tactic

(Newser) - A bill to restore unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who have been out of work for more than 6 months has cleared a Senate hurdle. The 60-40 vote came moments after Carte Goodwin, a successor to West Virginia's Robert Byrd, was sworn in. Goodwin was the crucial 60th senator...

With New Senator In, Dems Give Jobless Aid New Vote

Carte Goodwin takes Robert Byrd's seat today

(Newser) - A Senate bill that would extend unemployment benefits for millions appears set to break free of a Republican filibuster today, just as soon as West Virginia Democrat Carte Goodwin claims the seat of the late Robert Byrd. After he is sworn in, two Republicans will be needed to vault the...

Voters Support Helping Jobless, Despite Deficit

Polls show support for extending benefits

(Newser) - Most voters are in favor of helping the unemployed even if it means adding to the deficit, writes Arthur Delaney at the Huffington Post , who rounds up recent polls:
  • A CBS survey found that 52% of respondents—including 35% of Republicans—supported extending unemployment benefits at the cost of increasing
...

We Just Don't Understand Jobless Benefits
We Just Don't Understand Jobless Benefits
OPINION
Jul 5, 2010 8:30 AM CDT

We Just Don't Understand Jobless Benefits

Paul Krugman sets out to clear up the confusion

(Newser) - Congress went home to its fireworks and watermelon without extending jobless benefits, leaving Paul Krugman to explain how that's possible. "We’re facing a coalition of the heartless, the clueless, and the confused," he writes, and though we're probably stuck with the first two groups, he thinks it's...

Senate to Unemployed: Have a Nice Holiday
Senate to Unemployed: Have a Nice Holiday
another gop filibuster
Jul 1, 2010 7:16 AM CDT

Senate to Unemployed: Have a Nice Holiday

Without extended jobless benefits, that is

(Newser) - More than 1.3 million laid-off workers won't get their unemployment benefits reinstated before Congress goes on a weeklong vacation for Independence Day. For the third time in as many weeks, Senate Republicans last night successfully filibustered a bill to continue providing unemployment checks to people who have been laid...

Senate GOP Blocks Extension of Jobless Benefits

Democrats falls 3 votes short

(Newser) - Senate Republicans defeated Democrats' election-year jobs bill, including an extension of weekly unemployment benefits for more than a million people out of work more than 6 months. The 57-41 vote fell three votes short of the 60 required to crack a GOP filibuster, delivering a major blow to President Obama...

Hatch Wants Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients

Utah senator wants condition on jobless benefits

(Newser) - As a possible extension of jobless benefits works its way through Congress, Orrin Hatch is trying to insert a controversial condition: Recipients must pass a drug test before they get their money, reports the Salt Lake Tribune . "Too many Americans are locked into a life of a dangerous dependency...

Obama Signs $18B Benefits Bill
 Obama Signs $18B Benefits Bill  
Apr 15, 2010 10:50 PM CDT

Obama Signs $18B Benefits Bill

Prez urges Congress to work on longer-term fix

(Newser) - President Obama signed an $18 billion bill to give the long-term unemployed a 6-week benefits extension soon after it passed both houses of Congress. The bill—which also includes health subsidies for the unemployed and a restoration of full Medicaid payments to doctors—made it through the House and Senate...

Senate Breaks GOP's Unemployment Filibuster

Moderate Republicans break ranks to move bill past key hurdle

(Newser) - A GOP attempt to filibuster another extension of unemployment benefits failed last night after four moderate Republicans voted with the Democrats. The bill—a package of measures that includes extending benefits for another month for around 200,000 long-term unemployed—is expected to pass a final vote later this week,...

Senate Faces Another Fight on Extending Benefits

Starring Tom Coburn as Jim Bunning

(Newser) - With the Senate scheduled for a two-week recess after tomorrow, there’s another showdown brewing over unemployment benefits—and this time, the Republicans have introduced a bill of their own in an apparent effort to avoid the negative publicity that came with Sen. Jim Bunning’s one-man filibuster earlier this...

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