Unemployment Benefits Extension The current talk of an unemployment extension has been a hot topic in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Raid has created a deadline of October 27th to come to terms with the extension of the first time home buyer tax credit and unemployment benefits or he is going to bring the unemployment benefit extension bill to the Senate as a stand alone bill. If we see the unemployment benefit extension pass in the Senate as a stand alone bill there is a good

I know someone who skipped out on class to attend President Obama’s speech at MIT on Friday (she’s a fan). I suppose she remained unfazed by his teleprompter failure (Hat tip: Freedom Eden ): Maybe TotUS grew confused- in HAL 9000 fashion - as to the purpose of the MIT trip : Elizabeth Williamson reports on President Barack Obama’s remarks in Boston. President Barack Obama flew to Boston today for a speech at Massachusetts Institute of Technology about energy and the economy

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Chiding Senate Republicans in February for trying to slow passage of the Democrats’ spendthrift “so-called stimulus” package, Ma’am Barbara Boxer said swift action was necessary because jobs “ were being lost every minute “. In a statement made after the Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (AKA the “stimulus”), legislation Mrs. Boxer’s office claimed would “save or create millions of jobs and stabilize an economy in crisis,” the Golden State’s junior Senator repeated this

More than 1 million people hurt by the bad economy are at risk of losing their unemployment insurance by the end of the year. During the toughest economic crisis in more than a generation, 7,000 people every day are seeing their UI expiring—and it’s due to the petty obstructionism of two senators who are blocking the needed extension of UI benefits. This afternoon, 14 senators from across the country joined together to urge swift passage of a UI extension, to give workers access to the syste