Congressman Dave Reichert (R-WA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means, today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on preventing the payment of unemployment benefits to incarcerated individuals and other ways to improve the integrity of the Unemployment Insurance program. The hearing will take place at 1:15 pm on…
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Economists say the 2007-09 recession officially ended in June 2009. Yet, as the fifth year of the “Obama Recovery” begins, American workers are facing another discouraging Labor Day. Let’s take a look at some of the hallmarks of the “Obama Recovery”:
Worst jobs recovery ever;
Rising part-time employment;
Declining wages;
Growing…
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Seventeen years ago, on August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the most sweeping changes ever made to our nation’s safety net. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was the centerpiece of these reforms, replacing the New Deal-era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. TANF had a new mandate to help those in need by…
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the Ways and Means Committee released draft legislation to extend and improve the Adoption Incentives program. The draft was developed with the goal of producing bipartisan legislation based on testimony received at a Human Resources Subcommittee hearing earlier this year. A detailed summary of the draft legislation can also be found…
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The headlines citing last week’s jobs report as the lowest unemployment rate in years may have been technically accurate, but they are also reminders that looks can be deceiving. The reality, as you dig into the latest jobs data, reveals that few are finding the full-time work they want and need, and many are forced to accept part-time employment. As the chart below depicts, seven…
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Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the July jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 162,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for July decreased to 7.4 percent.
"It is tough to find the bright spot in this report when the fact remains that the…
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Today’s hearing is the third in a series this summer, set around the theme of reforming programs designed to assist low-income Americans in going to work and climbing the economic ladder.
Our first hearing highlighted how not working or working less than full time is the number one cause of poverty. Despite this obvious fact, the complex
interaction between welfare programs…
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Then
“US President Barack Obama vowed Saturday to work tirelessly to get unemployed Americans back to work now that new statistics have shown a slight improvement on the job creation front. ‘My commitment to you, the American people, is that I will focus every single day on how we can get people back to work, and how we can build an economy that continues to make real the promise…
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As the President heads back out on the road to talk about jobs, it is worth looking back at the “progress” that has been made since President Obama kicked off his first jobs road show in the summer of 2011. Since then, Americans have continued to experience the slowest economic recovery in recorded history, including 2 million fewer jobs than promised, more part-time than…
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