(Associated Content) — The Obama Compromise Bill may have passed without their approval and their proposed amendment for a provision regarding 99ers, but at least two members of the Congressional Black Caucus are doing something that might ultimately help those long-term unemployed workers who have exhausted all regular unemployment benefits and extensions available to them. […]
Despite days of dissent Democrats gave Obama votes needed for another win.
(Afro) — Having won the endorsement of the man dubbed America’s “First Black President,” Bill Clinton, the Obama administration on Dec. 10 peddled the tax deal made with Republicans as a boon for the African- American community. “We feel we really were winners in this deal because we got a lot of priorities through that […]
(Politico) — As a whole, the Congressional Black Caucus is against the deal the president cut with Republicans on taxes. But it’s becoming more clear that’s a consensus position, not a unanimous one. Citing the needs of impoverished, unemployed and foreclosed-upon folks in his Philadelphia district, Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah announced his backing of the […]
Democrats are struggling to see the good in a plan that continues large tax breaks to the wealthy.
(Businessweek) — For Democrats, the timing was awkward. On Dec. 7, the morning after President Barack Obama announced a tax-and-spending deal with congressional Republicans that will extend unemployment benefits for another 13 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that there were 3.4 million job openings as of the end of October. In other words, […]