Posts Tagged ‘benefits’
The fight: Tax cuts, jobless benefits and pipeline (AP)
AP – The White House backed away from a critical veto threat Friday as top Republicans in Congress served noticed they will extend expiring Social Security payroll tax cuts only if President Barack Obama swiftly decides the fate of a proposed oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs.
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Slightly more people seek unemployment benefits (AP)
AP – The number of people seeking unemployment benefits ticked up slightly last week after two months of steady declines.
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Senate approves jobs benefits for veterans (AP)
AP – On Veterans Day eve, an uncharacteristically unified Senate emphatically passed a bill to help unemployed veterans and government contractors that includes the first, small slivers of President Barack Obama’s jobs agenda that he is likely to sign into law.
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Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits (AP)
AP – The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.
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Lawmakers open to changes in military benefits (AP)
AP – The government’s promise of lifetime health care for the military’s men and women is suddenly a little less sacrosanct as Congress looks to slash trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
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Social Security benefits to go up 3.6 percent (AP)
AP – Social Security benefits will go up by 3.6 percent next year, the first increase since 2009 for the one in five Americans who rely on government retirement and disability programs.
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Obama touts jobs bill benefits for small business (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama urged enthusiastic college students Wednesday to join him in his fight to get Congress to act on his new jobs bill. “Every single one of you can help make this bill a reality,” the president called out at a hot and noisy rally at North Carolina State University.
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