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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 ...
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.
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 ]
A number of corporate tax breaks were extended, including the "active financing" tax exemption for major corporations (cost $9 billion), [6] the New Markets Tax Credit Program (cost $1.365 billion annually), [7] a rum tax supporting Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands rum industry ($547 million in 2009), a tax benefit for NASCAR racetrack owners ...
As of this past December, just under 7% of Americans are unemployed. While economists see this jobless percentage as well within expected limits, this is little consolation to the more than 4 ...
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 ...
Even if a state passes a law that would modify the procedure of calculating regular compensation so that the mean weekly benefit amount of regular compensation payable on or after June 2, 2010, will be less than the benefit that otherwise would be payable in that time under state law, a federal-state EUC agreement is still effective for the state.
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 ...