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by Adam Doster
11:19am
Thu Sep 17, 2009
30 comments

Quinn, 21 Governors Call For Unemployment Benefit Help

Wages

Yesterday, key Senate leaders -- including Sen. Dick Durbin -- endorsed bills working through Congress (H.R. 3404 and H.R. 3548 in the House and  S. 1647 in the Senate) that would extend unemployment benefits
for folks struggling to find work. And Gov. Pat Quinn along with ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
9:36am
Wed Sep 16, 2009
40 comments

Baucus, Durbin Back Unemployment Benefit Extension

Congress

All eyes are on the Senate Finance Committee today, as Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) formally introduces his long-awaited health care reform bill. Yesterday, however, the committee took some time to focus on another pressing concern: unemployment.  And the results were encouraging...

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by Adam Doster
12:44pm
Mon Sep 14, 2009
55 comments

Congress Considers Second Unemployment Benefit Extension

Stimulus bill

While widely lambasted
by stimulus opponents as useless "social spending," it's pretty clear
that boosting the length and size of unemployment benefits has had a
positive effect on those struggling to find work during this recession.
The Center on Budget and ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
9:57am
Wed Aug 26, 2009
184 comments

Unemployment Insurance Open Thread

Unemployment

Spurred by our posts about a legislative push to secure more
unemployment benefits for the state's workforce, a robust conversation
developed in our comments section among readers trying to maneuver
their way through Illinois' unemployment insurance bureaucracy. Many
...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
4:04pm
Thu Aug 20, 2009
1 comment

Another Uptick In The Unemployment Rate

Economy

When the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released a rather
encouraging jobs report showing that the national unemployment rate
actually fell in July --  for the first time in 15 months --  we wondered
if Illinois' rate would follow suit. Today the state's latest ...

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by Adam Doster
12:09pm
Fri Aug 7, 2009

As National Unemployment Dips, Will Illinois Follow Suit?

Unemployment

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its July jobs data
yesterday and the results were pretty encouraging. For the first time
in 15 months, the unemployment rate actually fell, from 9.5 to 9.4
percent. Employers only cut 247,000 jobs, about 80,000 less than
...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:49am
Mon Aug 3, 2009
2 comments

Another Unemployment Benefit Extension On The Way?

Unemployment

For months now,
we've been following efforts at both the state and national level to
extend unemployment benefits for those still struggling to find work in
this faltering economy.  In May, the General Assembly modified state
law so laid-off workers could access a seven-...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
1:18pm
Thu Jul 16, 2009
1 comment

Unemployment Jumps As Benefits Fund Drains

Economy

Just last month, we highlighted
Illinois' unemployment insurance fund as a bright spot in the state's
sea of fiscal darkness. When ProPublica teamed up with American Public
Media's Marketplace to study the nation's vast and decentralized unemployment insurance system, they ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:21am
Wed Jul 15, 2009
5 comments

State Underemployment Rate Soars

Unemployment

Tomorrow, the Illinois Department of Employment Security will
release the state's June unemployment rate and the numbers are
anticipated to be ugly. The current national unemployment rate hovers
around 9.5 percent, up slightly from May. The situation is worse in the
Land ...