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Congress extends jobless benefits, stocks sink - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - 11/21/2008
Congress extends jobless benefits, stocks sink - Yahoo! News
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WASHINGTON Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation Thursday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for a million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out. The economic picture was only getting worse, ...
Bush signs bill to extend jobless benefits
edition.cnn.com - 11/22/2008
Bush signs bill to extend jobless benefits
— edition.cnn.com — The Senate passed a bill Thursday that extends unemployment benefits.... (more) Bush signs bill to extend jobless benefits

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chicagobreakingnews.com - 11/20/2008
Jobless claims hit 16-year high
— chicagobreakingnews.com — The government said new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 from a downwardly... revised figure of 515,000 in the previous week. That's much higher than Wall Street economists' expectations of 505,000, according to a ... (more) Jobless claims hit 16-year high
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huffingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008
Perino: Bush would sign jobless benefits extension
— huffingtonpost.com — WASHINGTON — With weekly jobless claims benefits at a 16-year high, the White House said Thursday that... President George W. Bush would quickly sign legislation pending in Congress to provide further unemployment benefits. The Senate this week ... (more) Perino: Bush would sign jobless benefits extension

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Firedoglake:  Baker, Krugman, Roubini, 375 Economists Agree: We Need a Massive Economic Stimulus

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Baker, Krugman, Roubini, 375 Economists Agree: We Need a Massive Economic Stimulus
Firedoglake — ... So where are Congress and the Administration? Despite the growing economist consensus on what needs to be done, today Congress was able only to pass a narrow bill extending unemployment benefits a few more weeks. The President says he'll sign the bill. ...

Hullabaloo — ... So where are Congress and the Administration? Despite the growing economist consensus on what needs to be done, Thursday Congress was able only to pass a narrow bill extending unemployment benefits a few more weeks. The President says he'll sign the bill. ...

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