Senate Votes to Extend Jobless Benefits

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Updated: 2:51 PM Nov 5, 2009 Senate Votes to Extend Jobless Benefits WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate has voted to give the jobless up to 20 weeks of additional unemployment benefits and significantly expand a tax credit program aimed at getting buyers back into the dormant housing market. Posted: 11:45 PM Nov 4, 2009

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The Senate has voted to give the jobless up to 20 weeks of additional unemployment benefits and significantly expand a tax credit program aimed at getting buyers back into the dormant housing market.

The strong Senate vote for the legislation is a recognition that the government still needs to do more to keep the economic recovery from faltering. If enacted, workers in some of the harder-hit states would be eligible for nearly two years of benefits, a record.

The bill also provides tax relief for businesses that have been losing money. It now goes back to the House, which is expected to quickly approve it and send it to President Barack Obama for his signature.

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Posted by: Frank Location: Stuarts Draft on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:23 AM

Let's put the blame where it belongs--and it belongs on the American public. We've all wanted everything cheaper for years--the house, the cars, the t.v.s, the video games, etc. We haven't cared that big corporations squeeze companies into empty shells, with execs worried only about stock prices and their big golden parachutes. We didn't vote "no" about manufacturing and technology jobs moving offshore, and we didn't stop our own government from promoting any of this. Worse, we haven't learned anything from this recession. Corporations haven't changed the way they are doing business, and everybody still wants everything, cheap, so that we can't afford to make it in the U.S. It's still an "I've got mine" society--and apparently the people who have lost their jobs, their insurance, and their futures don't exist to people who still have theirs. You can complain about presidents all day, but only a complete change of attitude in the public about our country will get us on track.

Posted by: Frank Location: Hburg on Nov 5, 2009 at 08:45 AM

YES ! More FREE money from a President that can't keep promises and now he tries to cover his tracks. Unemployment may be slowing BECAUSE THERE ARE LESS JOB TO LOSE... Now a report showing falsities behind his claims of jobs saved. RAISES DO NOT COUNT AS JOBS CREATED OR SAVED. Hope and Change is now more like Duck and Cover...

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