unemployment benefits

The state labor department extends unemployment benefits:

“We don’t anticipate that we’ll have 50,000 claimants that actually would be eligible for the extension. We have to determine which individuals are still unemployed and have not returned to work.”

America is in the midst of a recession largely attributable to the economic policies of the Bush administration and the Republican party. As a result of this recession, millions of hard working Americans have been put out of work. Almost every family in this country has been touched by the current recession.

Well, the Christian Science Monitor is now stating that we're in a "jobs recession."

Whatever someone wants to call it doesn't much matter to those who are hunting for a job and not finding one - they're all pretty much screwed....

From the Padgett campaign:

From Beantown’s paper:

Isn't it amazing just how far, and how quickly, we've all spiraled down since the start of the 21st century?

Makes you really wonder who got us into this nightmare, but more importantly, it really makes you wonder who'll be able to get us out of it.....

As the Labor Department reported earlier today, jobless claims are up.

The AP is reporting today that "The number of newly laid off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell last week." That's a good thing, right? Not if you a mainstream media reporter. The rest of that opening sentence reads "...but the larger-than-expected drop was seen as only a temporary improvement."

Why is it that good economic news always seems to be "unexpected" by the press? Perhaps it's

So the Senate finally came to an agreement on the stimulus package, the House approved it and it is being sent to Bush for signing. Cool.

The House voted 380-34 to accept the Senate’s $170 billion measure, just a few hours after Democratic and Republican senators reached accord and ended a days-long stalemate over the bill.

Despite both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton breaking off their neck-and-neck campaign to return to the U.S. Senate to vote in favor of the Democratic economic stimulus package that would have extended cash rebates to disabled veterans and stretched out unemployment benefits, the Republican hard-heartedness and will-to-back-Bush once again won the