Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

Based on her July 28, 2010 article, The Battle Over Unemployment Benefits and Deficit Spending, Kristen Friend looks into the debate on long term verses short term deficit spending and reviews data from leading economist and CBO.

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By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court and Congress writer – July 28, 2010

After weeks of uncertainty and a highly publicized fight in the Senate, President Obama signed an emergency six-month extension of unemployment benefits into law last Thursday. The law extends unemployment insurance benefits for about 2.5 million unemployed individuals since the last [...]

By Gode Davis, staff columnist – March 16, 2010

According to the book Cooperstown, [1] which chronicles the exploits of men elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York; including, most notably, those who played what used to be called The National Pastime, Jim Bunning was “the consummate intelligent professional pitcher.” If [...]