The unemployment rate in my state, 8.5 percent, stands higher today than at any time in the last quarter of a century.
When folks lose a job through no fault of their own, the least we ought to do is extend a life line.
With reference to the JOBS Act, my recollection is that the bill, though strongly urged in Committee and strongly oppose...
We must stop the blame-the-victim approach of just blaming unemployment on the unemployed.
Today in America the problem that we face is not the unemployed, but unemployment.
And I know, as I said in my opening statement, there are those who want to blame the unemployed for unemployment. But ar...
That doesn't seem to me to be a very creative way to address this problem.
I am thankful that it wasn't, because I think the unemployed need the assistance more in my state than Governor Perry ne...
Threats of default on our debt and threats to shut down the government only set back our economic recovery and cost us m...
Terminating unemployment assistance would hurt our nation's economy by further suppressing consumer demand and confidenc...
Let's hope that this hearing is just the first step in forging a stronger consensus that we must not abandon the million...