Stabenow Calls for Passage of Tier V Unemployment Extension Bill, Lemieux Objects - Blog - OpenCongress
This afternoon Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI] called for the Senate to pass, under unanimous consent, the “Americans Want to Work Act.” The bill would add a fifth tier of unemployment insurance benefits in states with unemployment rates above 7.5%. The fifth tier would give an additional 20 weeks of benefits to unemployed people who have exhausted all of their available unemployment insurance benefits and have not yet found a job. Estimates differ on how many people would quialify for a fifth tier of benefits, but it’s generally believed to be somewhere around 2 million.
Democrats struggle to define own agenda - Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com
House Democrats have spent the past week dismissing the Republican agenda, “A Pledge to America,” as a budget-busting, irresponsible return to the Bush era.
But what’s the Democratic agenda if they actually retain majorities in Congress?
They don’t seem to have a quick answer. Some Democrats are in damage-control mode, barely able to look past Nov. 2. Others are defensive, believing they just need to do a better job of explaining to the American people what they’ve done on health care, financial reform and jobs bills.
No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs | OurFuture.org
Like the clear results on a pH test strip, the vote in the U.S. Senate this week on the Creating American Jobs and Ending Off-Shoring Act showed Republicans’ true color: Red. Red for China.
Or Mexico. Or Indonesia. Or anywhere multi-national corporations get tax breaks for exporting American jobs. In this test of loyalty, every Republican in the Senate voted for corporate greed over American workers
Where's the Voice of the Young People? | CommonDreams.org
My generation once shouted down the establishment, protested the war, rejected material possessions. Then the draft ended and we lost our idealism
Divest From BP - The Petition Site
Though many boycott BP gas stations, because the company sells gas under many different names, this tactic has little impact on its bottom line. Here's the sad truth: BP still makes billions of dollars every year.
Tony Schwartz: Why Companies Should Insist That Employees Take Naps
Good luck, right?
But here's the reality: naps are a powerful source of competitive advantage. The recent evidence is overwhelming: Naps are not just physically restorative, but also improve perceptual skills, motor skills, reaction time and alertness.
The Great Recession increased poverty in 31 of 50 U.S. states last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau. These states, which all saw both the number and the percentage of residents living in poverty rise in 2009, were almost entirely concentrated in the Sout
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