Yeah, turns out that THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS, dear readers, so the Globe is, well, let's put it this way:
Feel good, Bay-Stater?
"Thousands in Mass. could lose jobless aid next week" by Robert Gavin and Matt Viser, Globe Staff | May 27, 2010
More like WILL, Glob!
Baucus said 99 weeks was enough -- for workers, not war-looters or banks.
Nearly 100,000 Massachusetts residents would lose unemployment benefits by the end of July if Congress fails to extend an emergency program that has allowed laid-off workers to collect checks for up to almost two years, according to state labor officials.
The program, enacted as part of last year’s stimulus bill, is set to expire Wednesday, and with concerns about the federal deficit mounting on Capitol Hill, it is unclear when Congress will act on a $145 billion spending bill that extends emergency benefits through November.
If the emergency benefits expire, state officials said, unemployed Massachusetts workers would start losing benefits at the estimated rate of 10,000 a week, starting next week.
“A lot of people and families are going to be without this needed weekly income,’’ said Joanne Goldstein, the state’s secretary of labor and workforce development.
With the weeklong Memorial Day recess looming, leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress were scrambling to take up the spending bill, which not only extends health insurance subsidies for laid-off workers, but also fixes a glitch that penalized workers who took part-time or temporary jobs while collecting unemployment.
Related: Sending in the Census
Second story down, readers.
Tired of the lies yet?
The House is expected to take up the measure today. The focus will then shift to the Senate....
While labor markets have begun to rebound in the state and the nation, competition for jobs remains fierce. Some 15 million Americans, including more than 300,000 in Massachusetts, are out of work. Many economists say the unemployment rate — 9.9. percent nationally, 9.2 percent in Massachusetts — could still rise this year as workers who gave up looking for jobs in the recession resume searches as conditions improve....
Sick of Globe BS, sorry.
On Monday, teenagers protested outside Brown’s Boston office, setting up a “Sour Scott Lemonade’’ stand....
Kids been reading the Globe, too?
Further complicating the issue is a $59 billion bill before the Senate to fund relief efforts in Haiti and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Oh, don't worry, the WARS COME FIRST, Americans!
It remains unclear whether the Senate’s Democratic leaders can win the Republican votes needed to bring the spending bill to the floor....
Which one?
