Unemployment Figures

Rising Unemployment Taxes Could Hinder Hiring

Businesses Face Rising Unemployment Insurance Taxes As Job Market Struggles To Recover (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - It's forcing higher state taxes on companies to pay for unemployment insurance claims. Chuck Ferrar, who owns a...

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Extended homebuyer credits and jobless benefits

After unanimous passage in the Senate and a 403-12 passage in the House of Representatives, President Obama signed H.R. 3548 into law on November 6. The bill extends and expands a key tax credit for homebuyers while also...

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Rotten job market continues to dull glint of recovery [The Dallas Morning News]

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 22--They all remember the date. But Texas is on track to lose more jobs in 2009 than even the most pessimistic analysts expected at the beginning of the year. Burciaga was one of two dozen...

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Jobless benefits may be changing

By James McCusker This recession could change things in America. If this recession raises the level of persistent unemployment — the unemployment level that has been the floor for economic policy — by even just a few percentage...

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The dislocated

Mr. Biden chuckled, "I think we're in between." President Barack Obama has scheduled a "jobs summit" next month to sell this concept and perhaps take some of the heat off House Democrats who face reelection next year. FIND MORE...

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Overworked and underemployed: the Australian ‘recovery’

On November 12, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released labour force figures for October that showed unemployment had increased by 11,100 to 690,000 people. At the same time, monthly aggregate hours worked fell by...

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25 Reasons We Will Not Have a Depression

25 Reasons We Will Not Have a Depression Kimball Corson November 20, 2009 One particularly vitriolic reader of my last article on The Distorted Shape of the Recovering Economy seemed to think I was predicting a doomsday...

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Desperate Spending

Is anyone scared yet? Do you think we are going to make it through all this nonsense without being totally destroyed? Do you think Government has their priorities all wrong? Democratic Senate Passed their Health Tax Bill Upper...

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Returning to College as an Adult: Here Are Some Tips

OMG... I'm Really Doing This! According to the US Dept of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in the US is currently 10.2%. This is the highest unemployment the United States has experienced since 1983....

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How is that $787 Billion Obama Stimulus Plan Looking Now to Create Jobs & Lower Unemployment …...

How is that “hope and change” looking now on the Obama job creation front? Hey Obama Administration, It’s about the jobs, stupid … California, Delaware, South Carolina and Florida registered record rates of unemployment in...

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