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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (386443)4/5/2003 7:46:35 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
As layoffs continue, unemployment is expected to climb again this week.

csmonitor.com

"Unemployment is not going to go down significantly for a long time," says Maurice Emsellem, director of the National Employment Law Project

This week Congress was moving to approve a budget resolution that would allow a tax cut somewhere between the $726 billion approved by the House and $350 billion settled on by the Senate.
no one maintains a tax cut would do much good for many of the long-term jobless before their unemployment benefits run out at the end of May. Congress extended those benefits by 13 weeks beyond the normal 26 weeks earlier in the year.
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