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Jobless aid will soon flow again to millions after President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a bill to extend emergency unemployment insurance, capping months of partisan debate over the measure's ...
Obama presents his first weekly address as President of the United States on January 24, 2009, discussing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Job Growth by U.S. president, measured as cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of term. 2016 was the first year U.S. real (inflation-adjusted) median household income surpassed 1999 levels.
In the primary justification for the stimulus package, the Obama administration and Democratic proponents presented a graph in January 2009 showing the projected unemployment rate with and without the ARRA. [12] The graph showed that if ARRA was not enacted the unemployment rate would exceed 9%; but if ARRA was enacted it would never exceed 8%.
President Obama presenting the American Jobs Act to Congress The American Jobs Act ( S. 1549 ) (H. Doc. 112-53) [ 1 ] and (H.R. 12) [ 2 ] was the informal name for a pair of bills recommended by U.S. President Barack Obama in a nationally televised address [ 3 ] to a joint session of Congress on September 8, 2011. [ 4 ]
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 220,000 for the week ended Dec. 14, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast ...
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImagesCEOs meet at the White House The news this past Friday was that the unemployment rate has dropped to 6.6 percent. Meanwhile, 1.7 million Americans are impacted by the ...
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111–312 (text), H.R. 4853, 124 Stat. 3296, enacted December 17, 2010), also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2010.
Minutes after swearing in new Senator Carte Goodwin of West Virginia, Senate Democrats moved swiftly to send an extension of long-term unemployment insurance -- which has quickly become a red-hot ...