Americans on Unemployment at All-time High, New Claims at 627,000

The January figures are in and the numbers are much worse than expected.  627,000 new jobless claims were filed in January 2009 making it the worst month ever recorded in US history.  The number of...

States’ Funds for Jobless Are Drying Up

"By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: December 14, 2008 With unemployment claims reaching their highest levels in decades, states are running out of money to pay benefits, and some are turning to the federal government for loans or increasing taxes on businesses to make the...

Extended unemployment benefits part of Bush exit plan, is it too little too l...

George Bush may have an unexpected parting gift for America's growing unemployed population when he leaves office in January 2009.  In a very un-Republican move Washington insiders are speculating that Bush...

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