- President Obama echoes Elizabeth Warren
- Age Discrimination Harder To Fight Amid Record Unemployment For Older Workers
- Economists Call For Massive Debt Relief To Jumpstart Economy
- Marty Kaplan: Occupy K Street
- Zvi Or-Bach: How to Create American Jobs
- #OccupyWallStreet Protests Spark Optimism At Progressive Political Conference
- Ben Bernanke: Congress Should Not Sharply Cut Spending In Weak Economy
- Executive Pay Spiraling Upward As Corporations Race To Pay Their Top Brass The Most
- Elizabeth Warren: 'The People On Wall Street Broke This Country'
- Joel Libava: Franchise Ownership: Should Unemployed Boomers Start Looking Into It?
- Michele Nash-Hoff: Why is There a Lack of Skilled Workers With Such High Unemployment?
- Jason Alderman: The 411 on Prepaid Cards
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) is quite familiar with the 99er situation. Her constituents in Michigan and particularly in Detroit, see the impact of joblessness everyday. The state's unemployment rate is over 13% (although we know that government number is low at best), and in cities like Detroit and Flint the rate is higher than 25% and abandoned homes cover the landscape.
Now Stabenow has introduced a Tier 5 measure (Senate Bill S.3706) that would provide 20 extra weeks of unemployment benefits and extend a tax credit for businesses that hire workers who've been unemployed for 60 days or longer.
Read more about this bill and the struggle it will have in Congress with the GOP trying to get tax breaks for the rich. And read the press release from Senator Stabanow's office here.
Minimum Wage
Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.
The tea party want to abolish the minimum wage. Did YOU VOTE?
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- 2.0 million over 99 weeks, the 99ers!
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