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A Senate bill introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) on August 4, 2010, will, if passed, benefit those who have exhausted all of their benefits by providing an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits under a Tier 5. The bill has an unemployment rate threshold of 7.5% which requires states to have an unemployment rate at 7.5% or ...
Following the end of World War II and the large adjustment as the economy adjusted from wartime to peacetime in 1945, the collection of many economic indicators, such as unemployment and gross domestic product (GDP) became standardized. Expansions after World War II may be compared to each other much more easily than previous expansions because ...
Additionally as of September 2012, the long-term unemployment is the highest it had been since World War II, [84] and the unemployment rate peaked several months after the end of the recession (10.1% in October 2009) and was above 8% until September 2012 (7.8%).
The national unemployment rate currently sits at 9.7 percent, down from 10 percent the previous month, but almost double what it was five years ago. This means that 14.8 million of the ...
The Democratic outperformance is even more striking if data from the Great Depression and World War II are included. From 1927 through 2016, the average excess stock market return (that is, the difference between the stock market return and the return on a risk-free investment) was 10.7% per year under Democratic presidents and -0.2% per year ...
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.
Investors are starting to get more confident about the outlook for the U.S. economy. Risky assets like stocks, for example, are seeing renewed interest. But the painful unemployment situation in ...
June 2010 Canadian unemployment rate: 8.1% [16] September 2010 Canadian unemployment rate: 8.0% [22] October 2010 Canadian unemployment rate: 7.9% [23] November 2010 Canadian unemployment rate: 7.6% [26] The employment rate has been stabilized between 8.0% and 11.0% for the past two years; signifying the economic strength of Canada's financial ...