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All but 6 Republican Senators voted against the Unemployment Benefits Extension Bill Wednesday -- 16 of them from states with double digit unemployment. The National Unemployment rate^U3 is 9.7%.

Here are the 16 Republican Senators who voted against your safety-net:

Senators Kit Bond (R-MO), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), George Voinivich (R-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) joined all of the Democrats except Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) in voting for the measure.

UPDATED March 11, 2010

The number of new applications for Unemployment Insurance dropped to 462,000 by 6,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 468,000, in the week ending 6 March 2010, the US Department of Labor reported today.

The 4-week moving average was 475,500, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's revised average of 470,500.

Insured unemployment ending the week February 27 increased from the adjusted preceding week of  4,521,000 by 37,000 to 4,558,000. The 4 week moving steadied at 4,581,000, no change from the preceding week's revised average of 4,581,000.

States reported 5,527,925 persons claiming EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) benefits for the week ending February 20, an decrease of 159,649 from the prior week.

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WASHINGTON March 10, 2010 – UPDATE 

The Senate voted Wednesday to extend key pieces of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.

The bill was passed 63-36 with Six Republicans joining all but one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, in voting for the bill.

EARLIER STORY:

Legislation extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless faces a key test vote in the Senate today, its momentum helped by about 60 popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired at the end of last year.

The Senate is considering S.Amdt.3336 an amendment to H.R.4213 - Tax Extenders Act of 2009 -  that will extend unemployment and COBRA benefits to the end of 2010. 

The measure also prevents doctors from absorbing a crippling cut in Medicare payments, extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed and gives cash-starved states help with Medicaid, the federal-state program providing health care to the poor and disabled.

Nine Jobseekers For Every Job

WASHNGTON 9 March, 2010 There were 2.7 million job openings on the last business day of January 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Last Friday's jobs report showed 14.7 million out of work. Thats 5.4 unemployed people for each job. There are another 8.7 million with part time jobs that want fulltime work. Thats nearly 8.7 unemployed people for every open job.

As usual the dry and beaurocratese of the BLS report belies the the real pain and suffering resulting from the worst recession since the great depression of the 30's and totally ignored by the likes of Kyl, Bunning and Delay. 

There were 2.7 million job openings on the last business day of January 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported ... The job openings rate rose over the month to 2.1 percent, the highest therate has been since February 2009. The hires rate (3.1 percent) and the separations rate (3.2 percent) were unchanged in January. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the total nonfarm sector by industry andgeographic region. This release also includes annual estimates forhires and separations.  The annual totals for hires and quits decreased in 2009 while the annual total for layoffs and discharges increased.

Reuters: The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers fund filed a lawsuit seeking to recover money on behalf of other shareholders. It seeks to stop Goldman from allocating roughly 47% of '09 net revenue as compensation, saying such allocations "vastly overcompensate management and constitute corporate waste."