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House approves additional jobless benefits (AP)

Eric Bilderback, left, holds his resume as he talks with Mike Watson, a business employment specialist at WorkSource Oregon Tuesday, July 20, 2010, in Portland, Ore.  The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday 60-40 to end a Republican-led filibuster of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP – Congress has approved legislation to restore unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for six months or more, ending a seven-week interruption that caused 2 1/2 million people to lose unemployment benefits averaging about $300 a week.


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House set to approve additional jobless benefits (AP)

New claims for US unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, after two weeks of sharp declines linked largely to seasonal layoffs, government data showed(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Olson)AP – Congress is one House vote away from resuming unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed as the nation suffers through a wretched job market.


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Additional jobless benefits hinge on House vote (AP)

Unemployed Americans attend a National Career Fair at the Airport Radisson Hotel as they search for work in Los Angeles on July 19. The US Senate voted to restore unemployment benefits to help some 2.5 million Americans ahead of November mid-term elections shaped by deep voter anger at high joblessness.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AP – A House vote Thursday is expected to send President Barack Obama a long-sought measure to resume unemployment payments to millions of people whose benefits have lapsed.


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Senate permits gov’t to borrow an additional $1.9T (AP)

AP – The Democratic-controlled Senate has muscled through a plan to allow the government to go a whopping $1.9 trillion deeper in debt.

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Additional US troops arrive for relief effort (AP)

SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters assigned to Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 7 depart Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida January 13, 2010, to embark aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) en route to Haiti. hquake struck the Caribbean nation. REUTERS/Gary B. Granger Jr./U.S. Navy photo/HandoutAP – Hundreds of U.S. troops have arrived in Haiti, and a high-ranking Army officer said Friday that food, water, medicine and other emergency relief supplies are being rushed to victims of this week’s massive earthquake.


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