Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Congress Friday swiftly passed a deal to extend the payroll-tax cut through the end of 2012, continue paying unemployment benefits and avoid a steep cut in Medicare doctors’s fee, moving forward from a lengthy fight that had tied up legislators for months. The [...]
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Unemployment claims decrease to 409,000
May 19th, 2011
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims declined by 29,000 to 409,000 for the week ending May 14 compared to the previous week’s tally of 438,000 claims. That is still above the 400,000 mark. Analysts say first time unemployment compensation insurcance claims must drop below 400,000 and [...]
Massachusetts Unemployment Office: Data Breach Caused By Virus
May 17th, 2011
davidguide Because unemployed people haven’t been victimized enough already by our wonderful economy, just for lulz, let’s put their personal data in jeopardy too. EOLWD learned yesterday that the computer virus (W32.QAKBOT) was not remediated as originally believed and that the persistence of the virus resulted in a data breach. Once it was discovered, the system [...]
AIB hopes slowing unemployment caps arrears
April 12th, 2011
davidguide Allied Irish Banks (ALBK.I) is hoping that slowing unemployment in Ireland will cap the proportion of its mortgage loans that are under stress. “From the forecast that I have seen the rate of unemployment growth is slowing and so we hope that we still have single figure percentage criticised loans in our mortgage book and [...]
Sorry, Obama, but budget cuts are not “historic”
April 11th, 2011
davidguide You can count me in with the group that finds it sickening to hear President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hail the budget deal reached this weekend as “historic” and “the largest annual spending cut in our history.” A historic blunder, maybe, but certainly not a triumph. When unemployment is high and the [...]
Palestinian Economic Boom in Jeopardy, IMF Warns
April 7th, 2011
davidguide The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – The rapid economic growth in the Palestinian-ruled West Bank and Gaza Strip have enjoyed in the last few years is in jeopardy, unless Israeli restrictions on trade are eased and private sector investment is put to work to build businesses and create jobs, the International Monetary [...]
No Credit Check Long Term Personal Loans For 15000
April 6th, 2011
davidguide When unemployment comes in the life of person then he gets upset due to it. Now and then, he has to go by monetary problems and that time his family members and the relatives also do not help him in this situation. When you are to handle this situation in every condition, at this moment [...]
UAE Sees Expat Population Reach 90% Even as Economy Slowed
April 4th, 2011
davidguide The Media Line Staff Dubai, United Arab Emirates (TML) – Expatriates have increased their share of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) population to close to 90% in the past three years, even as the domestic population grew sharply and an economic downturn slowed the increase in foreigners to nearly nil, figures from the National Bureau [...]
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