But Ohio is one of many states whose unemployment fund is empty.
Despite these setbacks, Mr. Andor, one of the EU's most outspoken, if not most powerful, commissioners, still believes that a euro-zone unemployment fund will one day become a reality.
Mr Kim is trying to soften the blow by promising to issue bonds that would increase the unemployment fund from its current 1.2 trillion won to 4.5 trillion won.
Taxable part of private unemployment fund benefit payments.
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To complicate matters, previous administrations borrowed everywhere they could: they reached into the Stabilisation Fund, the Medicaid trust fund and the unemployment trust fund.
Two-fifths of it is being financed by an unemployment-insurance fund that workers and firms pay into.
Yet Pierre Moscovici, the French finance minister, last week surprised many by speaking of federalism and floating an intriguing idea: a Europe-wide unemployment-insurance fund.
At the time his state's unemployment rate was among the highest in the nation, and in December the fund that doles out unemployment benefits ran out of money.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts higher unemployment in nearly every major EU nation next year.
The White House finally adopted the idea in its 2012 budget, and Congress, in a recent agreement to extend payroll-tax cuts and unemployment insurance, agreed to fund a version of it.
The message seems simple: if we are serious about addressing the unemployment crisis, we need to fund and nurture new company formation.
It would also add money for some of the Democrats' domestic priorities, including unemployment assistance, a new GI bill to fund education benefits for military veterans and a package of tax credits for renewable energy sources.
The executive had established the Jobs Fund, which might help to address youth unemployment.
It would certainly benefit the taxpayers who now fund the haredi men's widespread lifelong unemployment payments.
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Labour attacked the government of youth unemployment figures and repeated calls for a bankers' bonus tax to fund 100, 000 extra youth jobs.
On its definition of deficit-cutting, the fund finds that fiscal contraction tends to reduce GDP and increase unemployment.
In a period of high unemployment, financial planners recommend having six to twelve months of necessary expenses in a liquid fund available.
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But last year, amid the government's fiscal tightening, euro zone's stagnation and rising unemployment, growth slowed rapidly to about 2.4%, according to the International Monetary Fund.
In a recent interview with the Times newspaper, Ken Rogoff, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund and a leading authority on the U.S. economy, singled out the unemployment statistics as a key yardstick of the severity of the crisis.
The EU will help to fund schemes to get young people into work or training in member states with the highest youth unemployment levels.
That's why I want to put money into clean energy jobs, green-collar jobs, and also make sure we have a fund that will help communities deal with the consequences of the home foreclosure crisis and make sure the unemployment system is up to the task.
This is not a bad idea: such a fund could lead to a shift from contributions linked to pay, which drive up labour costs (and unemployment).
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