Democrats had been pushing for extending benefits to laid-off workers as unemployment rates continue to rise.
First, we'll open new doors to higher education and job training programs to recently laid-off workers who are receiving unemployment benefits.
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In the city itself, where much of Kodak's laid-off industrial workers still live, unemployment in October was running at 9.6% on a nonseasonally adjusted basis.
Podesta said Congress could extend unemployment benefits for laid-off workers and provide assistance to states grappling with increased Medicaid costs quickly.
Faced with shrinking demand--higher unemployment means less need for uniforms--Superior Uniform laid off staff and posted a loss in the first quarter of 2009.
Indeed, according to a new analysis by the AARP of Department of Labor Statistics, average duration of unemployment for older laid-off job seekers rose to 44.9 weeks in October.
Workers pay high taxes, but trade job security for a guarantee, should they be laid off, of time-limited but generous unemployment pay that they can live on and a promise that they will get new jobs fast.
The bleak unemployment picture has sent many laid-off workers looking for internships that might lead to full-time jobs.
K. MURDOCK: Well, the last time I got laid off, I got -- they -- unemployment paid for me to go back, because where -- my job went overseas.
They slashed state unemployment benefits and rejected federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation to 170, 000 laid-off workers.
He was laid off from his 17-year job and, with unemployment hardly a survivable wage, took the first job that came his way.
Since few Latin Americans are covered by unemployment insurance this could include training for laid-off workers and temporary employment schemes, such as repairing rural roads.
Low rates of unemployment in the countries which have shifted furthest away from manufacturing suggest that most laid-off workers have found new jobs.
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