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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Roll Call breaks the story: The House ethics committee has drafted rules that for the first time would define gay married couples as “spouses” for the purposes of filling out their annual Congressional financial disclosure forms.
By the slimmest of margins, the U.S. Senate Wednesday night approved a measure waiving the pay-go rules for legislation extending the filling deadline for unemployment benefits (not to be confused with the creation of Tier V) until June. U.S. Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio was the only Republican to vote in favor of the motion, [...]
The U.S. Senate Monday took a step toward extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits, hopping a procedural hurdle that sets the stage for final passage of the bill later this week.
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote Monday on U.S. House-passed legislation extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits through the end of the month — a proposal not to be confused with the creation of a new insurance tier. That deadline came and went April 5, pushing an estimated 200,000 folks out of [...]
Fred Phelps and the folks at Westboro Baptist Church are on their way to Iowa Saturday (supposedly) to spread their particular brand of hate and anti-semitism. But before they arrive a handful of members took a detour to West Virginia to protest at the funeral of miners killed in Monday’s blast. The Kansas-based group — [...]
One of the central flaws of safety net programs is that they become most necessary during recessions when states are least able to afford the influx of beneficiaries. The National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group, reveals Thursday the extent of the problem as it pertains to jobless benefits, reporting that 33 states have fully [...]
As conservatives voice concerns about the elimination of a business tax deduction for retiree benefits in the Democrats’ health reform law, The New York Times responds Tuesday with a pretty convincing argument for why the change makes sense.
With countless headlines reminding readers that jobless benefits begin expiring Monday, it was inevitable that each party would be slinging blame over the Senate’s failure to pass a filing extension before leaving town last month for spring break. Which is why you’ve got Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sunday accusing Republicans of “irresponsibility” and [...]
For thousands of Americans without work and collecting unemployment insurance, the process gets stickier Monday with the arrival of the deadline for accessing the next tier of benefits — a deadline estimated to drop hundreds of thousands of jobless folks from the UI rolls this week.
The U.S. Department of Labor this morning released its much-anticipated employment numbers for March, indicating that the economy created 162,000 new jobs last month, but the nation’s unemployment rate remained 9.7 percent. Some economists see the figures as the first clear sign that the economy is on the rebound. “Unlike previous months in which payroll [...]
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