Congress Fails to Pass 30-day Unemployment Extension
Posted on March 31, 2010
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I belong to a group called the National Employment Law Project. They sent out an email yesterday telling the membership that Congress has gone into recess without passing the 30-day extension of the UI and COBRA programs. It appears extremely unlikely that the Senate will be called back into session for a vote before April 5th, when the programs expire. It appears our Congress is hard at work again handing us useless Health Bills that will just add to our national bankruptcy woes while ignoring those who actually need help. Another nail in the coffin of our nearly dead Republic.
The email goes on to say, “we have learned that the Senate has scheduled a cloture vote (a vote to end debate on the bill - they must get 60 votes to move forward) for 5:30 pm on Monday, April 12th, at which time they’ll try to move the 30 day extension through as quickly as possible. Simultaneously, and we hope over the recess as well, they will be working with the House to resolve some differences in the bill that would extend these programs through the end of 2010. We are hoping that year-end extension will be firmly in place long before the end of April.”
Come November, remember to vote against ANYONE that is a current member of Congress, regardless of party affiliation. Vote for those people who you know will do the right thing for Americans instead of this bunch of PAC owned politicians who like to put party membership above American values.
Clayton
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0331/private-sector-unexpectedly-sheds-23000-jobs/
Private sector unexpectedly sheds 23,000 more jobs
“U.S. private employers shed 23,000 jobs in March, missing expectations for an increase in jobs although fewer than the adjusted 24,000 jobs lost in February, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday.
The February fall was originally reported at 20,000.
The median of estimates from 35 economists surveyed by Reuters for the ADP Employer Services report, jointly developed with Macroeconomic Advisers LLC, was for a rise of 40,000 private-sector jobs last month.
The ADP report is seen as an early indicator of the Labor Department’s employment report due out Friday. However, there can be wide variations because ADP only accounts for private-sector jobs.
Economists expect the Labor Department’s report to show employers added 190,000 jobs in March. It would be only the second monthly increase in jobs since the recession began in late 2007. The number could be somewhat inflated because the government hired temporary workers to conduct the 2010 census.”