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[Bear Market News] How WE Can Save OUR Economy but Likely Will Not ”¦ « Bear Market News: Six million Americans are on the verge of losing the unemployment benefits that they have been surviving off of and there are now a record six available workers for every one job opening. Unemployment insurance funds have already been depleted in 33 states, with more expected to go into the red within the next few months.

[Center on Budget: Comprehensive News Feed] To Avoid Damage to the Economy, Sustain Unemployment Benefits, and ...: Other states have a history of enacting temporary levies on employers to finance these interest costs. As Mark Zandi noted, these additional employer taxes would hit at a time when the economy is still weak, and at a time when unemployment insurance taxes on employers already are going up in many states because of automatic provisions in state UI laws.[6] States that do not levy an additional tax on employers may pay the interest out of their general funds, but since states’

[Big Journalism] » Earth to Media: Unemployment Numbers Are Like Golf Scores ”” the ...: unemployment rate may, MAY, signify a recovery might enjoy a modicum of legitimacy in a purely academic, economics calculation, but from both a political and human standpoint, it's bullsh!t. by that logic, we must be in the midst of one helluva recovery because unemployment numbers have been going up for quite awhile now!

[Business Wealth Job Creation Personal Wealth Systems] Question for socialists only: How much education should citizens ...: That wouldnt work in the United States cause then they would have to divert alot of the taxpayers money from fattening the politicians wallets, free medical and social services for illegals, free welfare for Americans not willing to get a job and all of the other liberal programs that deplete American tax payer dollars. I would be all for it but all the people benefiting from the above are too entrenched in our federal liberal government wont stop giving to everybody that doesnt earn it and taking 33% of earnings away from those that work hard.

[xForce Articles] Don't Buy Real Estate in May 2010, buy 2012 and after » Estate ...: So I’m guessing no one on this youtube page is a Capitalist, but more likely a member of the ‘laborforce.’ To be a Capitalist means you don’t work but rather you live off your Capital in the form of dividends and Capital gains.

[Economy In Crisis] We are in a Massive Unemployment Crisis in this Country | Economy ...: But that situation has to change and the American people must be made aware that our endless war driven economy is depleting us financially and is a political straitjacket preventing us from providing the necessary resources that can help us return to and sustain a full employment economy.

[North Carolina Bankruptcy Blog & North Carolina Bankruptcy Information] Your Post Tax Season Financial Outlook | North Carolina Bankruptcy ...: As we’re all aware, this decade’s Great Recession has dealt, and continues to deal, a significant blow to the budgets of many American families, leaving millions in debt, underwater in their mortgages, and looking for any means necessary to get back on a financially-healthy course.  Now, in the weeks following this tax season’s deadline, important financial news abounds for many cash-strapped citizens and the struggling states they live in.

[Gather Politics Essential] Tier V Unemployment Extension Legislation... | Gather: “More than 44 percent of unemployed Americans have been out of work for six months or longer, the highest rate since World War II. Perhaps more chilling is a new analysis by the Pew Economic Policy Group that found that nearly a quarter of the nation’s 15 million unemployed workers have been jobless for a year or more.”

[Syria Comment] Syria Comment » Archives » Syrian Growth Figures; More Scary ...: One of the reasons there has been a consistent effort to deny that Bin Laden has any “real” interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that such an interest, sincere or not, suggests jihadist groups are fueled by U.S. and allied policies, or at least that they successfully exploit U.S. and allied policies for propaganda purposes. Washington would then be faced with at least one of two unpalatable truths.

[Progress Illinois] Unemployment Benefits Petition Nears 25000 Signatures | Progress ...: Regulators took control of Fannie and its smaller rival, Freddie Mac, the biggest providers of funds for home mortgages, in September 2008. Through the end of 2009, the government poured some $125 billion of capital into the companies by buying preferred stock paying 10% dividends.

[The Swamp] Blame George Bush: 75 pct on economy: The Swamp: When you have NO job, NO prospect of a job, NO recognition of anything going on around you that would otherwise resemble a job, have used up your unemployment, have depleted your savings and your 401k, have maxed out your credit cards, still have little folk and intermediate folk depending on you for things, and there truly is absolutely nothing of Real hope on the horizon, THEN I am sure that it must be of great comfort to say: “ That doggone George W.

[About.com Job Searching] Unemployment Extension: But the results of Bad Washington Policy remains, there are no good paying JOBS in America and more are leaving every week, mainly due to the onesided trade agreements sending millions of good paying middle class American jobs overseas and programs allowing millions of cheap foreign workers into our country to force more Americans onto unemployment. Adding insult to our economy, they continue allowing millions of Illegal workers into America, driving down wages, while driving up school taxes, the cost of charity medical care and all related social services through…even forcing many hospitals to close their doors.

[OutSourcedNews-Group] OutSourcedNews-Group » Blog Archive » Re: Retail Sales Probably ...: > > Payrolls increased by 290000 in April, the most in four years, > according to figures from the Labor Department last week. > > Unemployment climbed to 9.9 .

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