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Published: 7/18/09, 2:26 PM EDT By MARC LEVY HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Thousands of jobless Pennsylvanians are joining the growing ranks of people around the country who are exhausting unemployment benefits, as some experts worry about another blow to a stumbling economy. The state Department of Labor and Industry said between 20,000 and 25,000 Pennsylvanians exhausted their jobless benefits in the week that ended Saturday, the first big wave of Pennsylvanians to do so. Around the country, the number of people exhausting their benefits is piling up. By the end of September, more than 500,000 people will exhaust their benefits checks, with the biggest groups in Pennsylvania, California and Texas, according to estimates by the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for low-wage workers based in New York City. That number will nearly triple by the end of the year, the group said. Economist Mark Price of the Harrisburg-based Keystone Research Center, which is affiliated with organized labor, said the loss of that spending money in such a large quantity is likely to force businesses to lay off employees, deepening the economic doldrums. "As those people stop spending, it will mean businesses have less income and they'll start cutting back workers or hours," Price said. "We're still in a situation that it's not clear we've hit bottom, and this is going to push us further down." As part of the federal stimulus law, states can offer an extra 20 weeks in federally funded benefits. Most states have accepted the offer, although the extended benefit is triggered by a state's unemployment rate and not all states have met the criteria to offer it. Many unemployed Pennsylvanians are currently eligible for up to 72 weeks of benefits, including 13 from the stimulus law. Legislation under consideration in the state Senate would add seven weeks of eligibility, although the state will not officially meet the criteria to offer that benefit until August. That's when the federal government is expected to certify that Pennsylvania's three-month average unemployment rate is at least 8 percent, officials said. The bill overwhelmingly passed the Democratic-controlled House on July 7, with just one "no" vote. The Senate's majority Republicans, however, have not said whether they support the extension because of the cost to the state and local governments. Under the extension, the federal government picks up the cost of the benefits for people laid off by private-sector employers. State and local governments foot the bill for their own ex-employees. Senate Labor & Industry Committee Chairman John Gordner, R-Columbia, said he is seeking responses from the administration of Gov. Ed Rendell, Philadelphia, Allegheny County and representatives of local governments to determine how much support exists for the bill. Rendell, a Democrat, supports it, as does Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who is grappling with a severe cash shortage, said passage of the bill will cost the state's largest city $375,000. But, he does not oppose it because the federal extension will mean $31 million in benefits to more than 10,000 people in the city, he wrote in a letter to senators.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 17, 2009 7:33 pm) Producing parts for the V 22 Osprey is the largest government project here. Final Assembly is done in Canada and Amarillo where the positions are not unionized. Bell Helicopter says it has enough parts to get them through the end of 2009 and production will be largely unaffected. Bell Helicopter would not go on camera today, only saying they are currently hiring. UAW Local 218 says members are not worried because it won't be that easy to find qualified workers. Union Chairman Tom Wells says, "You're just not going to go out in the street in find somebody who knows how to bond the wings on a V 22 it ain't going to happen." Carolyn Bowen says, "I'm not worried. I just heard there were two people in there laying up parts or trying to so in my department that's what I heard." And usually there's how many? She replies, "hmmm, I'd say probably 50." Members say they'll be out here as long as it takes. http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-bell-helicopter-story,0,92197.story |
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"With a macro, you can just hit a hot key combination instead of having to type out "your obedient servant" all the time, not to mention all the boilerplate you must type out over and over (oh, right, you bill by the hour - nevermind)"... quick...what can I do to outlaw macros???...does anyone else besides you know that macros exist???...I assume that nobody in the LEGAL profession knows this...something that might increase our productivity???...isn't that like...gasp...changing UAW work rules on the American assembly line???...what will I do without my $35/hour floorsweeper (plus benefits???)...what will I do with less hours to bill???...HELP??? "Go easy on our resident Lawyer, he is a rare breed. A conservative lawyer is about 1 in 100,000 would be my guess"...thanks, gagrice, I need all the defense I can get...you see, I have been of this political mind since high school, because it makes so much capitalistic sense, and, growing up in the auto trade and then living in Detroit, just hammeed home to me how a ridiculous union (UAW) will ruin an industry...OR, as I like to say...I was a normal person before I became a lawyer, so all this ABA liberal crap (pro-union, anti-2nd Amendment, etc) simply disgusts me... |
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Replying to: lemko (Jul 18, 2009 11:16 am) In a recent speech "President" Obama said (with that stern look) that many of those jobs are gone forever. Looks like nothing is really being done to create jobs, as people are loosing them in huge numbers. A million or so since he took office. Looks like the "Plan" is to continue extending the unemployment until there is simply not any money left. Then print some more, which becomes more worthless.. Meanwhile "Cap n' Trade" and National Health Care", will create raising taxes on small business owners as well as larger companies, forcing them to lay off and/or relocate to other countries. Such as China, which is growing at 7% right now. Sad thing is that the liberals just can't see the writing on the wall. Kip
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Replying to: kipk (Jul 19, 2009 4:18 am) >In a recent speech "President" Obama said (with that stern look) that many of those jobs are gone forever. I wonder how long it will take the Union leaders and rank and file to figure out they've been had in all these promises through the last years. Their party has sold them out while soliciting their help to get the party elected. >Looks like the "Plan" is to continue extending the unemployment until there is simply not any money left. Then print some more, which becomes more worthless. ... Meanwhile "Cap n' Trade" and National Health Care", will create raising taxes on small business owners as well as larger companies, forcing them to lay off and/or relocate to other countries. The party has been in power since 2006. Look at all that has gone wrong. Meanwhile they synthesize a crisis for everything they want to get passed through the spending mill and calling it something different than it really is. Everything is done in a hurry hoping to avoid people knowing about what the costs are and restrictions are by actually _reading_ the bill--what a novel idea, reading before voting on it. IUE locally is one of the largest IUEs and was shafted in healthcare cuts for retirees because they weren't "taken care of" by the GM/Chrysler restructuring. Another case of their boy promising and not delivering. Even today, IIRC, there's someone kvetching in the local Dayton paper about how they worked to get their Obama (and others) elected and they're ending up with NOTHING. Meanwhile another editorial page short clip posters reminds them their party has been in power since 2006, so they can't blame the other party and Bush for this mess they've made since 2006. I see the building blocks here for some pretty funny reality politics for lots of Union workers, IUE AND UAW, after the smoke and platitudes and honeymoon settle and are over. Huge tax increases coming except on the redistribution folk who will receive more benefits. We'll see how the Union workers react to paying lots more taxes to cover other folks with lesser means and to pay increased local taxes in their state. I hope they saved a big part of those high incomes from the glory years.
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jul 19, 2009 6:11 am) I know two Union Contractors here in San Diego that are shutting down and taking what they have left before Obama, Pelosi and the state of California extracts it all for cap n trade and health care. Elections 2006 and 2008 will go down in the history books, if they are ever printed, as the biggest mistakes by the voters in our history. Most small businesses cannot survive with an additional 5%+ tax. Many were not even netting 5% in this economy. These are not rich people. They are hard working individuals that keep a few of our population employed. And the Obama government does not like individuals succeeding. PS One of the contractors told me his top two union iron workers made more than he did in 2008. He feels like a slave to his own company. |
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 19, 2009 7:19 am) Hmmm, electing Carter will give this a run for the money. History will tell....
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Replying to: carnaught (Jul 19, 2009 8:39 am) Regards, OW |
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"Sad thing is that the liberals just can't see the writing on the wall"...no, you are quite wrong...they see EXACTLY what they are doing, and they are doing it quite intentionally...they simply want to destroy capitalism so that everyone is equal (where are you, Karl Marx?), and then everyone is dependent on the gov't except the big wigs... Complain how you want about Republicans, and they certainly aren't perfect, but almost always better than Democrats... Democrats always appeal to minority interest groups, promising them something over some other group, and always making someone else pay for what they get...unions, racial minorities, gays, radical feminists, Man-Boy love groups, blaming Society (or guns) for crime instead of the person who commits it, etc.whatever they get will come out of my hide, whether a loss of my money or my rights... Republicans try to lower tax rates (which, BTW, helps everybody, whether self employes, unionized, gay or straight, or whatever...there is no discrimination whan tax rates are reduced), lower capital gains rates (again, any union member selling stock or a home with cap gains will net more money from a Repub admininstration as there is no discrimination on any basis), less gun control (so inner city folks can defend what little they have), make the CRIMINAL responsible for his crime, not "Society at large"... Even union folks (yes, even UAW idiot cretins) do better under a Repub, except that their striking is frowned upon...considering what their strikes have done to American industry, maybe frowning was a good idea... How do lower income tax rates discriminate aginst anybody who is not a Republican???...how do lower cap gain tax rates discriminate against anybody not a Republican??? So, why does the UAW/union vote and the black vote always go to the party that does nothing for either one??? The liberal promise everything and let them see what they get... (Parenthetically, I wish GW never created "No Child" or Medicare Part D, or spent like a Interesting that, aside from Iraq, everything has been run by Democrats since 2006 election...why is it all Bush's problems when they had 2 years to "correct" all he did wrong??? Are Unions/UAW really THAT stupid to see that??? |
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