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Jobless claims rise by largest amount in 3 months ‎
New claims for US unemployment benefits have risen for the first time in five weeks, official data showed Thursday. The Labor Department said initial jobless claims totaled 471,000 in the week ending May 15, up 25,000 or 5.6 percent from the prior week’s revised figure of 446,000. The figure was…
Maddow shows Senator Coburn who’s really ‘acting on emotion’
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow struck back on Thursday against the charge by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that she is “demonizing” him “on the basis of emotion” over his attempts to block an extension of unemployment benefits. In defending himself against his critics on Wednesday, Coburn had singled out Maddow, saying, “Look…
Coburn: Blocking jobless benefits okay because it only affects a ‘relatively small number of people’
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) added potential fuel for Democratic outrage over his block of a one-month extension of federal jobless aid earlier this week.…
March jobs data shows biggest growth in three years
The recession-racked US economy is “beginning to turn the corner,” President Barack Obama said as data showed 162,000 jobs were created in March, the biggest increase in three years. The US Labor Department said Friday that job creation leaped dramatically in March after years of near-continual losses, although the increase…
ABC: Militia members receive government money
The U.S. militia movement sees itself as a bulwark against encroaching government powers — a way to maintain individual liberty in an era of what they see as ever-growing state control over people’s lives. But for at least one of these groups — the 21st Battalion of the LightFoot Militia…
President Obama signs multi-billion dollar jobs bill into law
President Barack Obama offered hope Thursday that the faltering US economy will soon create more jobs, as he signed a multibillion-dollar employment package to aid the fragile recovery. Signing into law a 17.6-billion-dollar measure designed to boost hiring, Obama said the economy was “beginning to move in the right direction,”…
Senate sends jobs bill to Obama
WASHINGTON — Amid deep election-year worries about high unemployment, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to send President Barack Obama a 17.6-billion-dollar package aimed at creating jobs. “It is the first of what I hope will be a series of jobs packages,” Obama told reporters shortly after the 68-29 vote,…
DeLay: People are unemployed because they want to be
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says that Sen. Jim Bunning was “brave” for blocking an extension in unemployment benefits. DeLay subscribes to the notion that people only try to find jobs when their benefits run out. “There is an argument to be made that these extensions, the unemployment benefits,…
Conservatives believe Obama adviser’s forecast is a ‘snow job’
The conservative-leaning Drudge Report sported the following all-caps banner Tuesday morning: “OBAMA ADVISER: WINTER TO ‘DISTORT’ UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.” The Reuters article, that Drudge links to, reports “White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures, which are due to be…
Kyl defends Bunning blocking unemployment benefits
On the morning of the day unemployment benefits are set to expire across America, one Republican senator defended the ideology of another. “All Senator Bunning was saying quite correctly is it ought to be paid for,” Sen. Jon Kyl told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Sen. Kyl (R-AZ) explained Sunday why…
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