Published: June 23, 2011
Tags: jobs, unemployment, unemployment benefits, Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state panel has recommended legislators tweak Wisconsin statutes to allow jobless people to collect an additional 13 weeks of federal unemployment benefits. Extended federal unemployment benefits are designed to serve as a last-ditch safety net for an unemployed person who has exhausted all of his or her other state and [...]
Published: November 10, 2009
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, Bergan, budget, debt, insurance, James Buchen, Mark Honadel, Tom Fisher, unemployment, unemployment insurance, Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, wages, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
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By Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance budget has slipped into the red and is projected to be more than $2 billion in debt in each of the next four years. To avoid that crisis, state lawmakers are working on a bill, to be introduced in spring, that would offer possibilities to stem the bleeding. [...]