Stimulus

Democrats call for UI system fix as millions face another lapse in benefits

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unemployment / By max cyril

Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Senate Democrat overseeing unemployment issues, is calling on Congress to give the Labor Department $500 million to shore up the bewildered state unemployment system. Hobbled by antiquated computer systems, state agencies responsible for paying out unemployment benefits have struggled to administer new emergency aid programs created for the millions of …

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Reversing job market opens door to larger Biden stimulus

Leave a Comment / Stimulus, Uncategorized, unemployment / By max cyril

The latest coronavirus wave slammed the U.S. economy in December, wiping out 140,000 jobs, raising pressure to accelerate vaccinations and blowing the door open for President-elect Joe Biden and a narrowly Democratic Congress to push for even more stimulus spending within weeks. The December employment report, the last to be released during President Donald Trump’s administration, …

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“THIS IS NOT GOOD NEGOTIATING. THIS IS A COLLAPSE”–BERNIE SANDERS

Leave a Comment / Stimulus, unemployment / By max cyril

Late last night, Congress passed a $908 billion COVID relief bill that will extend unemployment benefits through the early spring, provide support for small businesses, schools, health care, nutrition, rental assistance, childcare, broadband, and the Postal Service, as well as funding to help distribute vaccines. This legislation also includes, importantly, a $600 direct payment for …

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‘We’re already too late’: Unemployment lifeline to lapse even with an aid deal

Leave a Comment / Stimulus, unemployment / By max cyril

U.S. lawmakers are struggling to hammer out another economic relief package before Congress adjourns next week. But for millions of Americans, the deadline may have already passed. Even if Congress reaches a deal, some 12 million unemployed people could see their benefits lapse after Christmas. Worker advocates say it could take weeks for the jobless aid …

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Three things unemployed people should know right now, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Stimulus, unemployment / By max cyril

Unemployment claims just hit their highest level in months, Republicans are still refusing to negotiate a stimulus package that does half what the country needs, and people who have been unemployed for months are increasingly desperate. Only the government can truly help unemployed people, but the National Employment Law Project’s Michele Evermore has three pieces of advice …

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Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Just weeks after Washington lawmakers allowed a $600-a-week boost in payments for millions of unemployed workers to expire, the economy is already starting to feel the pain. The number of workers lining up for jobless aid has been rising. The retail and delivery sectors, which especially benefited from laid-off Americans spending the extra cash, have …

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A $6.5 Trillion Stimulus Plan Now! Hong Kong Labor Activists Under the Gun

Leave a Comment / Stimulus / By max cyril

Let’s go really big! I outline a $6.5 trillion stimulus—more than double what the Democrats in the House passed—because that’s what the people need over the next year: $1.3 trillion in wage guarantees; $715 billion for state and local governments; $600 billion for a “Pandemic Medicare For All”; $1.5 trillion to cancel all student debt; …

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Chicago Window Workers Who Occupied Their Factory in 2008 Win New Bankruptcy Payout

Full Employment Is More Than Possible. It Is Essential.

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Progressives have not only been able to beat back the D.C.-elite effort to cut Social Security, we put the idea of expanding Social Security on the table instead. We pushed LGBT rights and gay marriage and have won significant victories. Sunday’s Climate March will force climate onto the map. We got the discussion of income …

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Assert Yourself, America; Don’t be an Illegal Trade Victim

Leave a Comment / Free Trade / By max cyril

How is it that America finds herself in the position of schoolyard patsy, woe-is-me victim of China’s illegal trade practices that are destroying U.S. renewable energy manufacturing and foreclosing an energy-independent future? Come on, America. Stand up for yourself. Tell China that America isn’t going to hand over its lunch money anymore; international trade law will be enforced now. That’s the demand the United Steelworkers union made this week when it filed suit detailing how China violates a wide variety of World Trade Organization obligations.

Democrats call for UI system fix as millions face another lapse in benefits

Reversing job market opens door to larger Biden stimulus

“THIS IS NOT GOOD NEGOTIATING. THIS IS A COLLAPSE”–BERNIE SANDERS

‘We’re already too late’: Unemployment lifeline to lapse even with an aid deal

Three things unemployed people should know right now, this week in the war on workers

Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus

A $6.5 Trillion Stimulus Plan Now! Hong Kong Labor Activists Under the Gun

Chicago Window Workers Who Occupied Their Factory in 2008 Win New Bankruptcy Payout

Full Employment Is More Than Possible. It Is Essential.

Assert Yourself, America; Don’t be an Illegal Trade Victim

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