What Do You Think? Unemployment Extension News

By on December 15, 2011 in Article

Unemployment stinks. Nobody likes it and it’s all-over a rough time.

Come January 1, 2012, unemployment could be getting a whole lot more stressful for millions of unemployed Americans.

On Wednesday, the House passed a bill to restore federal extended benefits programs. That means that, if passed, the legislation will reduce extended benefits by 40 weeks.

While the Senate is expected to reject the bill, this news has brought important issues to the surface.

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What do you think? What is your opinion with regards to unemployment benefits and the potential reduction? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

About Heather R. Huhman

Heather R. Huhman is the Career & Recruiting Advisor for Cachinko. She is also the founder & president of Come Recommended, the author of Lies, Damned Lies & Internships: The Truth About Getting from Classroom to Cubicle (2011), #ENTRYLEVELtweet: Taking Your Career from Classroom to Cubicle (2010), and writes career and recruiting advice for numerous outlets.
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  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.renzelman Michael T Renzelman

    With all the money going to help, how many have steped up and taken advantage of training or starting the own bussinesses? While this is happening, I think the Fed/State governments should do more on this end. Teaching people to fish rather than just feeding them.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Felipe55 Felipe Villasenor

      The Fed/State are not doing the right things to help people. There are over 3 million open jobs right now, but why are they open if there are 20+ million unemployed? One thing we need to do is bring efficiency to job seeking, similar to what NASDAQ and NYSE do for stock trading. If information is shared so fast and job seekers can get matched instantly to employers then we are making progress. Policy changes can help get the other 17 million people back to work, but none of this happens when politicians are not focused on jobs. Lots of problems, I feel your pain. Imagine if the government funded startups to solve this problem with let’s say $1B/year (drop in the bucket), all our top talent would focus on fixing this BIG problem. Big companies and big government don’t help, they just do more of the same.

  • lenasingh

    Good post..!!
    jobs

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