Democrats generally want even more money, arguing with 1 million construction workers unemployed, Republicans are missing an opportunity to increase the job rolls.
Factories, mills, foundries, mines, railroads, and so forth existed ready operate while millions of workers were unemployed.
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Yet legions of skilled construction workers remain unemployed while we drive our cars over pothole-laden roads and creaky bridges.
What happens when you diminish job creation as a driving economic focus became obvious with confirmation, just as the Labor Day weekend began, that the U.S. economy is now deep in the midst of a "jobless recovery, " with nearly 30 million American workers effectively unemployed, of whom 8.5 million have been out of work for more than six months.
In the current environment, increasing the supply of workers does nothing to increase the demand for workers, so it just means more unemployed workers.
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Innovative entrepreneurship and wage insurance programs: States will also be empowered to implement wage insurance to help reemploy older workers and programs that make it easier for unemployed workers to start their own businesses.
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Our businesses are hiring again, but there are still five unemployed workers for each job opening.
If they did not have extended unemployment compensation, some unemployed workers would find and accept new jobs.
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That angers Colin Hampton, one of the senior welfare advisers at the town's Derbyshire Unemployed Workers Centre.
But the fact remains that nearly one in five construction workers is still unemployed and needs a job.
Instead of stimulus, the Germans raise incentives for unemployed workers to take jobs.
Government assistance for unemployed workers was designed for the economy of the 1950s.
Talks also were stuck over how to administer health benefits to unemployed workers.
In the best of circumstances, long-term unemployed workers struggle to find new jobs.
But despite the large pool of available unemployed workers, hiring did not rebound.
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Local governments have to quickly find a way to help newly unemployed workers.
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Extending unemployment insurance to 99 weeks reduces the incentive to search diligently for a job, enabling unemployed workers to be choosy.
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We are pulling the rug out from under the unemployed too soon, to the detriment of unemployed workers and their families.
One tenth of U.S. workers are currently unemployed and almost half of these people have been unemployed for six months or more.
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Although new jobs may open up, they may require different skills than those that match the unemployed workers, according to the report.
Republicans could offer more help to unemployed workers in the fiscal-stimulus bill.
He added that the gap between the rate of income inflation between workers and the unemployed had "grown" in the last few years.
My position is go after the senior executives and board members, who were more culpable for causing the bankruptcy than the unemployed workers.
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Because of a bill I signed into law a few months ago, businesses are now eligible for tax cuts for hiring unemployed workers.
Because of a bill I signed into law a few months ago, businesses are now eligible for tax cuts when they hire unemployed workers.
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Nationally, more than 1 in 3 unemployed workers has been looking for at least six months, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Some research has suggested that unemployed workers should take up any job they can get, including temporary work, as a bridge to higher-paying employment.
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Because of a bill that I signed into law a few weeks ago, businesses are now eligible for tax cuts for hiring unemployed workers.
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