Tag: unemployment benefits
$1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan approved
Finally, help is coming
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
Relief is on its way – at last.
President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan – $1.9 trillion COVID-19...
‘Disgusting’ plan to reduce unemployment benefits for Missourians headed for House...
'What we’re doing here is wrong’
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – Missouri Republicans are bent on making Missouri the worst state in the nation for...
Plan in Missouri House would reduce unemployment benefits when jobless rate...
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – State Representative Doug Beck (D-Affton), a member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562, is fighting back against legislation to...
Steel workers’ unemployment bill sent to governor
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City – The legislation that laid-off workers of Granite City Steel have been waiting for has been passed and sent to...
House committee passes steel worker benefits extension
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City, IL – With the election out of the way, the Illinois Legislature has returned to work for the veto...
Illinois legislators call for special session to pass benefits extension for...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City, IL – Three Metro-East state legislators are calling on the Illinois governor and legislative leaders to hold a special session...
Missouri Supreme Court strikes down GOP-backed law cutting unemployment benefits
‘A victory for all working people’
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Jefferson City – A law that had cut the duration of the state’s unemployment benefits to one...
Granite City steel workers out of benefits, losing their homes; food...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Granite City – Times keep getting tougher in Granite City. Now, more than six months past the indefinite closing of Granite...
MO Senate overrides veto of bill cutting unemployment benefits
Jefferson City – The Missouri Senate last week voted to override Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that cuts the state’s unemployment benefits.
Their...