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Administration eyes ways to help laid-off workers (Stimulus II 'on the table' and horizon?)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/3/09 | Charles Babington - ap

Posted on 10/03/2009 11:17:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is considering steps to ease the burdens of laid-off workers, including possible extensions of unemployment and health benefits, officials said Saturday.

The administration has stopped short of calling for a second economic stimulus package to augment the $787 billion measure approved this year. But with the jobless rate continuing to climb, President Barack Obama said Saturday he is exploring "additional options to promote job creation."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: administration; bho44; bhodol; bhoeconomy; laidoff; layoffs; obama; porculus; porkulus; porkulusii; stimulus
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To: NormsRevenge
'In the weekly Republican address, Rep. Candice Miller of Michigan said the original Obama-backed economic stimulus package fell far short of its goals. She criticized a House-passed energy bill that would set limits and costs on greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, which the Senate has not taken up, "would increase electricity bills, raise gasoline prices and ship more American jobs overseas," Miller said.

She called for deeper tax cuts for small businesses so the economy can get back on track.

"Washington Democrats' job-killing agenda makes me think they're living on a different planet from the families living in America's suffering heartland," Miller said.

Rep. Miller definitely gets it. But of course, Obama and the Democrats will only continue to throw more bad money after bad money, causing even more misery than there was to begin with at the onset of this recession.

41 posted on 10/04/2009 9:25:22 PM PDT by T Lady (The MSM: Pravda West)
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