Posts Tagged ‘ Middle Class ’

Union Chief Blasts House GOP for Vote on Unemployment Insurance

December 14, 2011 3:38 pm
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Calling them “callous,” a prominent labor leader denounced House Republicans for their approach to extending unemployment benefits to jobless Americans. The GOP-led House voted Tuesday to extend emergency unemployment insurance beyond the end of the year for Americans, but only after also cutting and restricting the benefits. “It’s bad enough that Republicans blocked bills to create jobs, but now they cut unemployment benefits for people who can’t find work,” says Jim Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters labor union....

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Drinks Are on the House (and Senate)

October 21, 2011 6:36 am
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“Got any idea how to make a frozen daiquiri?” Saturday. 6 a.m. A question no one else would have asked at that hour. I knew it had to be Marshbaum, my faux-friend foil. “Too early to be drinking,” I mumbled, then hung up. The phone rang again. “It’s not for me,” said Marshbaum, but since I’m going to own a bar, I should learn how to make drinks.” “Marshbaum,” I said, reluctantly awake, “you can’t even afford to buy...

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