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Democrats hope to block House vote on unemployment extension
It seems that President Barack Obama’s impromptu press conference Tuesday to sell the compromise he worked out with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits has not...
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Braley holds firm for Democratic tax package
Members of the U.S. House Democratic Caucus approved a resolution Thursday promising to reject a tax deal being hammered out by President Barack Obama and Senate Republican. Although U.S. Rep. Bruce...
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Grassley: Unemployment extension would have been possible without tax deal
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said earlier this week that even without a deal on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the Senate would have approved at least a brief extension unemployment...
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Cloture vote on unemployment extension, tax cuts expected Monday
With the Christmas recess and the seating of a new Congress looming, the U.S. Senate will kick off what should be a make-or-break week for the prospect of extending unemployment benefits and tax cuts...
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Unemployment extension highly popular, poll finds
Although progressive activists and Democratic members of the U.S. House hate the Obama-Republican deal on taxes and unemployment extension, the American people like it, according to a Washington...
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Passage of unemployment extension, tax cut looking inevitable
When the U.S. Senate voted 83-15 to end debate on the compromise unemployment and tax cut extension — an astonishing result for a session that has seen little agreement between the parties — liberal...
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Harkin votes ‘no’ on unemployment extension, tax cut deal
By an 81-19 vote, U.S. Senate passed President Barack Obama’s compromise bill negotiated with the Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for two years and federal unemployment benefits for one...
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Even with unemployment extension, 99ers ‘about to be dropped off a cliff’
If the U.S. House passes compromise legislation to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and federal unemployment benefits Thursday as expected, it still will do nothing to help the 99ers — unemployed Americans...
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3 million jobs, 20 million unemployed
The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics should be the stake through the heart of the common argument from conservatives that unemployment benefits...
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Another reason to doubt the ‘lazy unemployed’ meme
Gallup has a webpage that tracks global unemployment numbers. Felix Salmon looks at the data and provides another argument for why the claim that unemployment benefits keeps people from taking jobs is...
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