Unemployment benefits
In a coordinating action, leaders also voted to raise the maximum unemployment weekly benefit to $987, citing the results from a $174 million study that said "no one can survive on unemployment benefits alone; most people would require a job to supplement the subsidy."
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| "A few more trillion dollars of debt shouldn't hurt anyone" |
extend to 199 weeks...
In a bold, and unprecedented bi-partisan move, President Obama has joined with Congressional leaders to provide a 100-week federal extension to the combined state and federal unemployment compensation program, taking the total program, effective today, to 199 weeks.
In a coordinating action, leaders also voted to raise the maximum unemployment weekly benefit to $987, citing the results from a $174 million study that said "no one can survive on unemployment benefits alone; most people would require a job to supplement the subsidy."Obama, in a short address to an unemployment office in Michigan, spoke with uncommon political candor when he stated that "since we have been unable to effect a positive change in the economy and in the employment figures by handing out huge sums to banks and investment firms, Congress convinced me that we should make a change for the little people."
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| Thank the politicians for unemployment |
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He added that "A few more trillion dollars of debt shouldn't hurt anyone, and the payback will be seen in children of unemployed workers, whose faces will be washed of the embarrassment of not having the latest smart phone." "And," he said, "those people who claim to fear for the debt of future generations, will just have to learn that now is more important than later."
"This move should bolster the economy in many ways," noted John Boehner, Ohio Congressman and Speaker of the House, who led the bipartisan drive in the House, to push this change through. "Spending will increase, confidence in the economy should improve, and common people will remember this in the voting booths next year."
In a completely unrelated action, Congress did pass a 37 per cent raise in congressional pay, which will be paid retroactive to January of 2006. An unnamed senator stated that "if we're going to pay these lazy bums not to work, we ought to get a piece of the pie, too."
A new study to review these changes has been commissioned by Congress, at a cost of $183.6 million. Findings are tentatively scheduled to be released in 2017.
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