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 The United States Congress returns to Washington today for what may be the most crowded agenda faced by any lame duck session in history; it will certainly be among the most contentious. As millions of Americans who lost their job through no fault of their own wonder if there will be an unemployment extension and a Tier 5 passed during the belief lame duck session, it appears that the uncertainty as to how the U.S. Congress will address these concerns is anything but resolved. → Read More  Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  Many long time observers of the U.S. Congress are beginning to see signs the agenda for the United States Congress during the lame duck session is beginning to take form. Before the lame duck session, the Democratic leadership had anticipated as many as 20 significant legislative actions during the lame duck. Now, recovering from their midterm losses, which President Obama called “a shellacking,” the Democratic leadership of both the House and the Senate are becoming resigned to a significantly scaled back list of hoped for legislation during the lame duck. → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  As regular readers of my articles know, my main focus is an attempt to provide a political context to what I continue to believe to be the number one problem facing our economy, the enormous unemployment of people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and the seemingly never ending political struggle to move the U.S. Congress toward unemployment extension and Tier 5. In this article I would like to offer a more personal commentary on where we are – consider this a editorial piece if you will. → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  Just released this week was an alarming press announcement that armed guards will be added and on hand at 36 state operated unemployment offices in Indiana to prepare ahead against the expiration of unemployment benefits at the end of November. At the end of November, unemployment extensions Tier 2 through 4 will → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  While there are certainly many issues that are as divisive in the current political environment, it’s hard to find a more controversial and divisive issue than the question of unemployment extension and Tier 5 legislation. As much as some advocates for the unemployed and the unemployed themselves like to discard the arguments → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  On some days, it seems like the Tier 5 unemployment extension is going to be a foregone conclusion, other days it seems like it will never happen. Those latter times, the puzzle seems to be not ‘how to get the Tier 5 unemployment extension passed’ — because it’s just not going to → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  In recent weeks there has been an interesting shift in a lot of the commentary, on blogs, internet news sites, mainstream media and particularly in campaign rhetoric about the whole question of unemployment in general and unemployment extension and Tier 5 in particular. A long time reader wrote me “is it → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed)  The debate raging over America’s Tier 5 unemployment extension centers around one seemingly simple question: how much unemployment insurance is too much? Most Americans aren’t worldly enough to be paying attention to how unemployment insurance works in other countries, but perhaps there are valuable lessons to be found there. More on that → Read More Comments are closed - (Comments are closed) | |||||
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