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GDOL Issues Continued Assistance Act Payments To Over 166,000 Georgians Thursday, January 7, 2021 The Georgia Department of Labor issued over $130 million last week to Georgians in regular Unemployment Insurance (UI), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), State Extended Benefits (SEB), and Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) payments.  The total issued included payments to almost 167,000 Geo...

Producing great gains for working people even before the financial crisis, theres long-term structural trends in the economy. the financial crisis broke the labor mark and now you hear this anecdotal stuff, oh, im going down to part-time. it also i think become easy for employers to point the finger at obama care for stuff they wanted to do anyway. >> it is important that we correct the deception because just like the problems that are happening with the website, when you look at the state that ...

Functioning very well in the broadest sense. so people feel like the labor market isnt functioning and they are right to feel that way, then they tag obama care has the culprit. >> can you imagine if congress had been functional and we had passed the jobs act, if we didnt shut down the government over the hysteria over government reform. our economy shouldnt be limping along in recovery. it should be a robust recovery and the only reason it isnt is the antics led by republicans. >> congress has ...

The antics led by republicans. >> congress has not helped things, but one of the things that were seeing is that the labor market was not really producing great gains for working people even before the financial crisis, theres long-term structural trends in the economy. the financial crisis broke the labor mark and now you hear this anecdotal stuff, oh, im going down to part-time. it also i think become easy for employers to point the finger at obama care for stuff they wanted to do anyway. >> i...

columnist david from, the host of the fromme forum and former speechwriter for george w. bush. thank you for being here. the one thing were going to be hearing about in the next 12 months, david i put it to you, a gop set of primaries, looking for a candidate, talking about the middle class, who represents the middle class in this country? the the democrats are trying to make some speeches that the democrats are the party of the middle class, republicans the party of the rich. the repu...

diane swonk, old friend, chief of messere, aux financial. were talking about the middle class. who represents the middle class in this country. the democrats are trying to make the point with speeches by president obama in the last couple of weeks. democrats are the party of the middle class. republicans are the party of the rich. republicans obviously are struggling with that themselves. david, whats your sense of how republicans are thinksing themselves and who in this country repr...

Down to 8.6%. this may be on the backs of 315,000 people who said we are done looking for jobs. there are temporary holidays in the mix. so what does this mean for the president? >> its a piece of good news. and everybody realizes, i think, that this economy is weak, will be weak. the labor mark is weak and will be all the way through the re-election. but what the white house can take from this is theres a succession and a series of small, positive signs that they hope will create an impression ...

The growth of the labor mark. that means unemployment is going to stay as high as it is or possibly drift higher. thats a horrible story. were looking at 9.1% unemployment. we havent had this except for a short period of time in 1981. otherwise not since the great depression. thats a horrible story. i dont see a double dip. but thats not much cause for celebration. >> is there any evidence that taxing millionaires would really kill job creation? >> no. you know, its kind of incredible when we ha...

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