Mitchell Hirsch
- September 21, 2011 - 11:46am
A recent survey of online job sites has shown that CareerBuilder.com continues to post numerous new ads that discriminate against unemployed job-seekers.
- June 17, 2011 - 3:11pm
Originally published at UnemployedWorkers.org.
What do you call a bill that would let states seize all of the federal funds now allocated for unemployment insurance benefits to long-term unemployed job-seekers, and use those funds to bailout corporate taxes and state trust funds—instead of paying the benefits that were promised to jobless workers?
You certainly wouldn’t call it a “JOBS” bill. Yet, quite deceptively, that’s exactly what the sponsors of HR 1745 in the U.S. House of Representatives and S. 904 in the Senate have done. The Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits and Services (“JOBS”) Act, sponsored by Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), would set up a scheme to divert the $31 billion in federal funds authorized for Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) and Extended Benefits (EB) payments to what they’ve called “better uses,” like tax cuts for corporations.
(illustration credit: Anne Thompson and Bill Richards)
- May 6, 2011 - 3:22pm
The following was originally published at UnemployedWorkers.org
- April 20, 2011 - 11:19am
The following was originally published at UnemployedWorkers.org
- March 18, 2011 - 3:39pm
Originally posted at UnemployedWorkers.Org.
Far too many American workers, stricken by the plague of long-term unemployment, find themselves at a place that now exists just off of 'Main Streets' in big cities, small towns and rural communities across the country. It's a frightening place of great distress, where help is sorely needed -- call it 'Desperation Row'.
Every day we receive numerous stories submitted by workers through this website's 'Raise Your Voice' page. On a single day earlier this month we received dozens of such stories, several of which we'll excerpt here. Taken together, they offer a stark picture of lives in the balance, as the painfully slow recovery fails to reach those most in need and millions of jobless workers face the exhaustion of unemployment insurance benefits.
- February 25, 2011 - 4:42pm
Two weeks of virtually non-stop prote - August 30, 2010 - 12:23pm
The following was originally published at Working America's "Main Street" blog.
- Commented I love that last platform plank in a discussion on Austerian Sacrifice (Blog entry) | August 22, 2010 - 9:40pm
- July 28, 2010 - 11:00am
The following was originally published at Working America's "Main Street" blog.
- July 22, 2010 - 6:49pm
The following was originally published at Working America's "Main Street" blog.
