Unemployment News
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Obama signs jobs bill: 'By no means enough'
12:15 PM on 03/18/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the U.S. a jobs boost...
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Senate OKs jobs bill for Obama's signature
10:42 AM on 03/17/2010
VIDEO - Companies that hire unemployed workers will get a temporary payroll tax holiday under a bill that easily won final congressional approval Wednesday...
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Why African-Americans are more optimistic despite fewer jobs
11:10 AM on 03/11/2010
OPINION - A new study shows that blacks are more economically optimistic than whites, with 36 percent stating that we expect our financial future to improve...
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Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks
3:54 PM on 03/10/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure...
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3/8/10 - theGrio & CNBC Market Update
7:00 AM on 03/08/2010
VIDEO - Investors prepare for reports on retail sales, consumer sentiment, and job openings this week as March gets into swing...
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Unemployment rate remains unchanged as 36,000 jobs lost
8:05 AM on 03/05/2010
VIDEO - The figures suggest the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur...
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House passes tax breaks for new hires
4:23 PM on 03/04/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite doubts that it'll create many jobs, the House passed legislation giving companies that hire the jobless a temporary payroll tax break...
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Bunning gives in, Senate OKs jobless benefits
9:04 AM on 03/03/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting a lone senator's cantankerous challenge behind it, the Senate is back to work on a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits...
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Kentucky's Bunning blocks jobless benefits again
2:56 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - To the increasing discomfort of his fellow Republicans, Sen. Jim Bunning again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless...
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2,000 fed employees jobless thanks to Sen. Bunning
9:59 AM on 03/01/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning to block passage of legislation...
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Three reasons why Obama should take small steps to save jobs
8:39 AM on 03/01/2010
OPINION - By creating bills with manageable price tags, the president can deviate from the Congressional gridlock of 2009...
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Lone GOP Senator blocks unemployment benefits extension
10:21 AM on 02/26/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate failed late Thursday to extend programs for laid-off workers, jeopardizing unemployment benefits scheduled to expire over the weekend...
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Senate approves jobs bill with tax breaks for new hires
11:25 AM on 02/24/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 70-28 vote sends the bill back to the House, which passed a far more costly measure in December...
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Reid seeks extension of jobless aid until end of 2010
5:40 PM on 02/23/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is pressing to extend unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless through December...
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Jobs bill advances, but is the Senate still paralyzed?
8:41 AM on 02/23/2010
OPINION - Think of what could be accomplished if Republicans accepted President Obama's hand more often than they give him a cold shoulder...
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Democratic jobs bill advances past GOP filibuster
6:56 PM on 02/22/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster on Monday with critical momentum provided by the Senate's newest Republican, Scott Brown of Massachusetts...
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The stimulus one year later: A bold move that began a jobless recovery
8:14 AM on 02/17/2010
OPINION - Abysmal disparities in economic opportunities prove that equality has not yet been achieved...
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Blacks have endured a decade-long jobless recovery, leaders say
6:31 PM on 02/10/2010
In a meeting that many in the African-American community considered a long time coming, President Obama met with black leaders today ...
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Leaders leave real black issues out in the cold at White House
6:16 PM on 02/10/2010
OPINION - Black leaders still insist the president's travails are born of process and not of substance...
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Obama's decline reflects the perils of democracy
8:17 AM on 02/08/2010
OPINION - Obama has been given the simple, yet impossible task of improving the economy while being given no resources in order to get the job done...
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