Some state unemployment funds drying up

[Nambe]

Source: CNN

The demand for unemployment benefits across the country has put a strain on state unemployment funds, with such funds in at least 10 states facing insolvency in 2009, according to a policy group.

Nationwide, unemployment reached 6.1 percent, or roughly 9.1 million people, in August, up from 4.7 percent in 2007, and is expected to continue rising. The U.S. Department of Labor said that in August, claims for unemployment benefits reached their highest levels since 2001, in large part because of hurricane activity on the Gulf Coast.

With a weekly average of 474,000 new applicants in August, in a system already looking after about 3.5 million people each week, the growing rate of recipients has nearly depleted unemployment funds in several states.

"There are some real serious problems with unemployment funding that need to be addressed," said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project, a policy group that advocates on behalf of unemployed and low-wage workers. ...

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/08/jobless.claims/index.html

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[Nambe]

2. Where on Earth are you hiding all those jobs?

Hungry tummy's want to know.

[Politicalboi]

3. I have been sucking off that tit

Since August. It's the second time in my entire life that I have collected anything. The last time was 1987 and only for a month. I am taking it as it comes. I have worked almost 30 years and I feel I deserve it. I'm just gonna wait till January to even look for a job. I say fuck it. Besides I have used some of my ill gotten money to donate to Obama. So see it can be good.

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[trumad]

17. I know you're going to be gone in just a couple of minutes----

so let me just say before you are worm dirt that come Nov 4, when you first realize that a black man will become President of the United States---please---oh please---have your gun in the cocked position and blow your fucking brains out. As a matter of fact---- I hope that all your fellow cockroaches take that advice.

[Nambe]

6. In France, they call it a holiday (vacation). Enjoy.

[OhioChick]

7. Very True. n/t

[Politicalboi]

9. Thank you

I will. Look Kaos I am not the kind that thinks things should be handed to me but I have paid so much into unemployment insurance for years and never had to use it. I work when there's work and I will return to work if we don't have a financial melt down where scavenger techniques will become a must. A financial melt down by the way can postpone an election if his majesty Bush says so. If this economy doesn't turn itself around we are going to have mayhem in the streets.

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=1lylae

[Strelnikov_]

8. What job? n/t

[OhioChick]

11. Try finding one in Cleveland and then we'll talk. n/t

[CreekDog]

12. you forgot the sarcasm tag in your message

at least you better have.

[fasttense]

14. Never in his 34 years of work history has my husband taken unemployment benefits.

But then he got laid off when the contractor he was working for didn't get the contract renewed. We were going to form a small business and take over the contract. Hell, he ran the contract anyway and the customers were very happy but the spin off contract employees got caught with their hands in the till. The customer got angry and refused to renew any of the contracts.

So here he was with the experience and the know how to do this job on his own. But guess what? There was a Non-Compete clause in his employment agreement. He couldn't take over the work or we would face a lawsuit from the corrupt contractor.

So, he's put out hundreds of resumes and gone to just about every employer in the area but NO ONE is hiring Anyone. He has a BS degree for god's sake and the only jobs around here are waiter and sales clerk jobs. He's 55, he doesn't have time to start from the bottom yet again. Why did he bother to get an education????? It's useless. This is the reality of the bush economy - nothing but McJobs except for a lucky few.

Seems no matter how hard we work, no matter what experience or education we have, no matter what we do, we will get stuck with a shitty McJob.

Yeah, he took his unemployment benefits. He earned them, he worked hard all his life and followed all the rules. When the cards are so seriously stacked against you what else are you going to do?

It's going to be a very sad Christmas this year.

Obama is our only hope.

[conscious evolution]

16. Screw the no compete clause

If the original company has been fired then you are not competeing with them.Your husband would be competeing with other companies.

[doodadem]

29. Talk to a lawyer

about that non-compete. They are not allowed to keep him from making a living in his chosen field.

[unpossibles]

15. it's not the government tit

it's the money which workers have been paying into their entire working lives.

[conscious evolution]

21. Right.It is insurance

that the goverment requires employers to carry.Much like workmans compensation for when employees are injured on the job.

[MiniMe]

22. Actually, companies pay into unemployment insurance, not employees

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

25. Which effectively makes it a form of compensation.

[unpossibles]

28. yes, but that is taken into consideration as a cost and affects your pay

It's essentially the same thing, but I get your point.

[Cerridwen]

18. Ya mean like those worthless banks who just got 600billion off the gov't tit?

Like those folks?

Lemme guess; you think only the $5000 suit-wearers are deserving of our tax dollars, right? Heaven forbid they might have to settle for a Jaguar this year instead of a Bentley.

It's much better to have people trying to decide between heat and food or medicine, right?

Man are you on the wrong board. When your friends gave you directions to meet them, when they said "hang a right," they meant your other right.

[ima_sinnic]

19. ignorant much? workers pay unemployjment insurance, so how is that "gov tit"?

your mean-spirited, ignoramus, dumbass comment reveals your low-brow trollishness.
wouldn't you be more comfortable around people of your own kind, the knuckle-dragging pea-brains over at freepville?

[vanderBeth]

20. Spending time on the computer and eating cheetos in your mom's basement is not a job. Sorry

[Nambe]

26. It is my computer, my popcorn, and it is a job. I love my useless job.

[aquart]

4. WPA. Now.

[defendandprotect]

10. Because we're doing the important things in attacking other nations . . .

for 7 years . . .

and allowing totalitarian capitalism to run wild --

[raccoon]

23. Jeez, my state's in there. Of course if I were to get laid off I wouldn't get unemployment anyway,

since I'm part-time.

[llmart]

24. Part time workers....

can get unemployment compensation.

[raccoon]

27. Really? even if it's a one-year renewable contract. nt

[customerserviceguy]

30. That may be fueling the bump in the polls for Sen. Obama

Ever since the economic meltdown, it's become a LOT harder for folks to say, "Well, it won't happen to me." We know the Repukes are more than willing to bail out their friends on Wall Street, and even the Main Street bankers. Next year, when unemployment goes way up, and local funds are tapped out, a President Obama is much more likely to ask for money to bail out those funds (and those unemployed people) than a President McLame might do.

People have their fear cup full to overflowing with things that really matter right now, they don't have patience for William Ayers scare talk this time around.