Compromise: Unemployment Extension, Tier 5 & Spending Cuts. The GOP could compromise with the Democrats and offer unemployment extensions of benefits in return for spending cuts. This news comes in the wake of the elections, where the GOP gained control of the House. While Republicans have been against unemployment extensions in the past, they appear to realize that if they don't cater to constituents, come 2012, they could face the strong opposition that the Democrats faced during this election.
The Associated Press reports that the current extensions could be re-instated as long as they are met with government spending cuts.
When the lame duck session begins, chances are the focus will be on the Bush Era Tax Cuts, and not the unemployment extension. However, this should be foremost in everyone's mind, as without an extension of current benefits over 2 million Americans would lose their benefits this holiday season.
If the government is really concerned about "stimulating the economy" they need to keep money flowing to the long-term unemployed. Hopefully the lame duck session brings us good unemployment extension news.
They need to extend benefits for those people who are enrolled in training/education programs.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise many of these people will be forced to drop out of training forgreat career opportunities.
What a shame!
I have only had 2 extensions,not 5 . If I do not get a check in the next 2 weeks I will be homeless.I have no other income,and there seems to be no help. tried to get food stamps 3 times and was declined because I had an income, that just helps me from being homeless. The snow is coming to Nevada any day now...and as for people that I have read saying we are just whining,I have tried for a year and a half,everyday to find a job. I want to work,not sit here depressed and scared of being homeless.
ReplyDeleteAll the Republicans have to do is act like they're heart isn't made of tin and maybe they wouldn'd be despised as much. Congress isn't there to suit their wants and needs, it's there for Americans! And the majority doesn't care about Bushb tax cuts.
ReplyDeletePlease extend the jobless benefits! I have been loking for work for the better part of 2 years & I go to school (online) to become a paralegal. Perhaps, there may be some people who gave up out of frustration, but that DON'T mean that WE DON'T WANT TO WORK! The jobs are not out there and the winter months along with the holidays are coming soon. Haven't we been through enough. the fact that we cannot find work and now no benefits either! I'm TIRED OF LIVING IN FEAR OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO US NEXT! NO ONE should have to live the way I feel right now, I worked for the majority of my life, NOW what little I do have is being taken away from me & my family. I thought that America was suppose to be the land of the FREE & Opportunity for all. I feel so let down and forgotten:(
ReplyDeleteEND the BULL--it war. there's your budget cuts idiots
ReplyDeleteWhat are they saying about Tier 5.? Does this include Tier 5 too ?
ReplyDeleteI would like to bash the crap out of these rich politicians i am losing my friggin car and house
ReplyDeleteand there are no fuking jobs
So they assume that if we no longer receive unemployment benefits that we are no longer seeking work??? Have any of these politicians ever been out of work?? No one knows what it's like if they haven't been in our shoes. 18 months and only a handful of interviews.... no response from most employers that they even received my resume..... not even given a chance because I am "over qualified"... my resume is only part of who I am but never able to let them see that.... now faced with the next step which is being homeless. How do you search for work when you are homeless? Most people don't want to hire you if you don't have a permanent address. So tired, depressed and feeling worthless.
ReplyDeleteI have had no extensions, and this is real bad news. Let's see, prison isn't looking so bad any more! At least I will be able to eat! LOL What we need is JOBS - and jobs that pay a wage allowing us to pay the bills. Anything under 15 an hour - after taxes - won't even pay for rent and a car payment.
ReplyDeleteBoth parties were too cowardly to approve an extension and the creation of Tier 5 due to the fact the TRUE unemployment numbers would be put forth.
ReplyDeleteCreation of Tier 5 would add at least 4 million people to the Unemployment Stats. (99er's are not counted aa unemployed they just fall off the Stat board)
This could push the National Unemployment rate to 12% instead of the "adjusted 9.6".
It's a shame that the People we elect to office are more conerned with apperances than the actual facts.....(Both Dem and Rep know that this recession is worse than they want us "little people" to know.
Good luck to ALL job seekers!!! I hope you can hold onto your homes/cars/apartments, while Washington fights over control of the House as "We the people" suffer!
Our country is going to start to see violence escalate as the holidays get nearer as many have nothing and they are just going to hit their breaking point and that will be it. Our government needs to start helping us and not themselves. Why do we have to resort to begging for this help. How do we apply for jobs if we have no homes, money for gas or transportation and how do we even eat. Our food banks can't help us unless you have children and if you have any income from a spouse you can't even get food stamps. We have no money for oil to have hot water and heat and who can even buy daily necessities like toilet paper and toothpaste and deodorant. We barely have money for food of any kind. It is so pathethic to have to live like this and be treated like a stray cat. Being 58 years old nobody even will give you an interview and now they are requiring credit checks. Who on unemployment has any credit at this point. We can't buy bread let alone pay bills so we have no credit so we have no chance of getting a job. Again we lose. What the hell are we to do? I wish these politicians could come and explain this to me. Nobody wants to live like this and lose all you have. Crap they don't want to lose what they have so why do they think we are different. Do they think we want to be like this and lose all we have. Get real. If unemployment was a race issue or an illegal issue we would have all these Al Sharptons and Jessee Jackson taking charge and making a big stink but where are all our voices out there? There are none. Foreigners have tradegies and our government and the entertainment field rush to give them telethons and money raising things but here in the USA we get nothing. Why do we not count? Our situation is just as dire as we have nothing and we need the help. Obama claims he is helping but he really isn't. The reublicans have nerve using us as pawn for their riches. When is it ever going to end??
ReplyDeletePoliticians are scum. They are supposed to be working for the people. They seem to have forgotten that.
ReplyDeleteI will soon be one of the 99'ers. I have been looking every day for a job for a year and a half. I have over 25 year of project management experience but have gotten zero interviews. While I need some type of income instead of unemployment I would prefer if there was a very high tax put on companies that operate in the states but have over 25% of their employees overseas. We should be focusing our efforts on bring back job's. While 20 weeks of income is great what happens once that runs out and there are still not jobs. What about the companies that only hire people who are working, what sense does that make. And you cannot tell me all out of all the people complaining here some of you did not vote Republican. So you get what you ask for.
ReplyDeleteI spent whole my retiment money to take care of my family and pay the bills, I don't have any other income, if republic really want show their love to American people, please EXTEND TIER 5.
ReplyDeleteThe government are nothing but a bunch of worthless a**holes.
ReplyDeleteI could NOT disagree with you more! We don't need unemployment extensions or tier 5,6,7,8,9 or 10! WE NEED JOBS!!!!! ANY OF YOU THAT SAY YOU CAN'T OR WONT WORK UNDER $10 OR $15 AN HOUR ARE TO GREEDY FOR YOU'RE OWN GOOD! CAN YOU LIVE ON $0 AN HOUR? HOW'S THAT GOING FOR YOU?
ReplyDeleteDROP YOUR PRIDE & TAKE WHAT YOU CAN GET & READJUST YOUR LIFE TO THAT PAY GRADE!!!! SOMETHING IS BETTER THEN NOTHING AT ALL!!!!!! SO STOP LOOKING FOR A HAND OUT & BE GREATFUL ANYONE OFFERED YOU ANYTHING CAUSE SOME PEOPLE DON'T EVEN GET INTERVIEWS!!!!
We needs Tier 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, to stimulating the economy !!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI will have to agree with Anonymous November 8 2010 2:47 PM. It appears to me that some of you want to find a job that allows you to keep all the material things that you bought with your last job. If you come across a job at Target paying 9 per hr then you better take it. Some money is better then none at all and yes you may have to downgrade your lifestyle so that you can make with a job a target.
ReplyDeleteI apply to any job that I can do even if it's Target. I don't get call backs. I'm not sure if that's because they think by my resume I'm over qualified or what. I am so hurt and maddened at all the hatred toward the unemployed. There might be some that are playing the system and taking advantage but I have think that anyone who is at risk of losing a home or car (not material things but, the necessities) cannot afford to not want a job. Maybe those that do not apply for min wage jobs have a family to support, mortgage, auto insurance, car payments, food, etc. Maybe they are worried that if they accept a low paying job they're missing out on one that pays more. I hope that any of you that are so hateful are able to hold on to your jobs. I am grateful for all the assistance that has been given but I'm also worried -not whining.
ReplyDeleteI have found that most min. wage jobs I am over qualified for yet 90% of the people working at these jobs are all hispanics. I do not want to sound prejudiced but I worked my entire life and paid taxes and yet because I am not hispanic I am not allowed to work ?????
ReplyDeleteLOL I love when people say they are "overqualified" for positions they applied to. Then take your college education off the resume! Edit it so that you are "underqualified!" Or get creative - go back to school and get a Master in something, giving you an 80-90% chance to get a job within the first 3 months. Get a job under the table to supplement your unemployment.
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show my how to park 10 cars in 2 car garage and i will show you how to fix the unemployment problem.
ReplyDeleteSee the problem is there are currently 5 + people in need of a job for every job avalable.
SO tell us how do you get 10 cars into a 2 car garage?
I hate to say it but if your under the age of 40, and able bodied maybe you should look into the armed forces. The army will take anyone under 40. Even if you have a minor criminal record they will take you. If your married with kids, they will house you, give you medical, and retirement. I would be homeless If I didn't serve.
ReplyDeletearms forces is not the way to go because the defense budget needs to be drastically cut and soon. Our country can't afford the trillion dollar defense budget. Add in the trillion in tax relief for the super rich and you understand why the GOP gets all righteous about unemployment benefits!
ReplyDeleteGOD BLESS THE USA LOL
You laugh that I am over qualified and suggest modifying my resume so that I am qualified? Did you ever hear of background checks?
ReplyDeleteBTW I am currently taking courses to advance my skills. I am enrolled in five programming classes.
You guys think you know everything, all the answers. Heck, they are hiring for border patrol. Maybe you would suggest I leave my family behind and patrol the borders. LOL
"go get a job that pays under the table to supplement your unemployment"
ReplyDeletegosh, really? Where should I look? Oh... maybe babysitting? Don't you think that if there is competition with jobs that EVERY job, even babysitting jobs, there are still many applicants to every help sign out there? How smart to you want to make yourself out to be? Three months you say with new skills? You are a GENIUS!! Why aren't you in office? You sound like you have all the answers to fixing this mess AND finding jiobs for the millions of unemployed!! Pat yourself in the back and go to sleep knowing how incredibly smart you are.
I love the assumptions that the unemployed are not trying to make ends meet or not using all resources available and still find it difficult to stay afloat.
If you join the military at least you could get food stamps,
ReplyDeleteDefense Commissary reports that more than $31 million worth of food stamps were used at commissaries nationwide in 2008 – an increase of about $6.2 million, or more than 25 percent – from the $24.8 million redeemed in 2007. That contrasts with a 13 percent overall increase in food stamp use by Americans for the same period, according to the Department of Agriculture, which administers the food stamp program.
The commissary agency stressed that its figures include military retirees as well as Reservists and National Guardsmen who shop at its commissaries.
I know it bad out there, but you don't give up, I am now retiring at 66 years old and belive me I have seen some tough times over my working career, back in the 70's I lost a great job (after 15 yrs) due to the passage of deregulations bills in the trucking industry.(Reagan) then in the early nineties I lost 2 good jobs due to companys sending work overseas (2 yrs on one and 13 yrs on the other)(Dems-Clinton)Then in the 90's I got a job with USPS and if I wasn't retiring I would be losing that job in the near future due to the (Republicans-Rep Issa) destruction of USPS... So hang in there folks and watch who you are voting for and make sure they are for the working people - do a little reseach before you pull that leaver
Good luck to all
It's true they won't hire you with a good work history when you go to smaller jobs and made decent money. It seems the interviewer has the advantage of put downs. You can tell they are not qualified to interview seasoned workers. Got a Holiday job for a few weeks. The people Training are rude and insulting. They don't even know their jobs. It's a blessing on one hand and humiliating on the other.
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