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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
(AP) -- The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above the level that would indicate the economy is adding jobs. While new claims -- which are considered a gauge of the pace of layoffs and an indication of companies' willingness to hire new workers -- remain far above levels associated with a healthy economy, they are down about 22 percent...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above the level that would indicate the economy is adding jobs.
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Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Photograph by bitchcakesny on Flickr The owner of H+H Bagels was indicted on tax fraud charges today. Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau said that Helmer Toro collected payroll taxes from employees but didn't pay them to the government and also evaded unemployment insurance tax . CityRoom explains Toro's scheme to avoid the unemployment tax: "Prosecutors say that Mr. Toro set up a new shell company...
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Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
WASHINGTON - New claims for unemployment insurance fell more than expected last week, evidence the job market is slowly healing as the economy recovers.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
New claims for unemployment insurance fall more than expected last week, evidence the job market is slowly healing as the economy recovers.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
New claims for unemployment insurance fall more than expected last week, evidence the job market is slowly healing as the economy recovers.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
New claims for unemployment insurance fell more than expected last week, evidence the job market is slowly healing as the economy recovers.
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Ratio Juris (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
In Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State (1988), Robert Goodin notes: In seeking an economic justification for the welfare state…we must look not merely for ways in which state welfare services provide economic benefits. We must look for ways in which state welfare services provide benefits that private actors in private markets cannot. We must look for ways in which...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Some Arizona economic indicators have improved recently, including initial claims for unemployment insurance, taxable sales and the median home sales price, according to the Arizona Republic's Arizona Economic Snapshot. But the housing and job markets continue to send mixed signals.
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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From our friends at the National Women’s Law Center, this news about the extension of unemployment of insurance benefits, signed into law today: Unemployment rose to 10.2 percent in October, reaching a 26-year high, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the unemployment rate among men is higher than among women, [...]
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
New Hampshire's two senators are hailing Senate passage of a bill that would extend unemployment insurance benefits to workers in every state who are in danger of seeing their benefits run out in the coming weeks.
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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Monthly Labor Review — October 2009 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Articles include: Part-time workers: some key differences between primary and secondary earners; Manhattan’s financial sector and the 2005–07 employment dynamic; The parenting of infants: a time-use study; Unemployment insurance recipients and nonrecipients in the CPS.
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LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
America's economy A joyless recovery New figures suggest that America has at last moved out of recession THE American government reported on Thursday October 29th that gross domestic product rose at an annualised rate of 3.5% in the third quarter compared with the second. This was the first increase since the second quarter of 2008. It backs up other evidence that the recession ended in the third quarter...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
About 45,000 Texans who have exhausted their unemployment insurance payments — or soon will see them run out — may tap additional benefits for up to seven more weeks.
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Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
He, like many other Senate Republicans, is in no hurry to help the millions of unemployed workers out here in the real world : Moments ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) took to the chamber floor with a strange claim about the urgency surrounding legislation to extend unemployment insurance. “The benefits haven’t run out yet,” Kyl said. “We’re going to pass this before the benefits...
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