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  Joyce Sheppard wrote a new blog post: It’s too early to cut back on unemployment benefits  (2 days, 1 hour ago)
  

  By Heidi Shierholz | February 1, 2012
  Congress is debating whether to renew legislation that extended unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed for up to 99 weeks (providing 73 weeks of federal benefits beyond the regular 26 weeks of state-financed benefits in most states). A good benchmark for testing whether this is a good idea [...]

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  Joyce Sheppard wrote a new blog post: The Truth Behind the Government Jobs Figures  (5 days ago)
  

  During his State of the Union address, President Obama presented many ideas for kick-starting job growth. They included large-scale job training programs, “insourcing” positions that have been shipped overseas, and tax breaks for companies that keep their operations here at home.
  It’s vital that Congress and the White House actually follow through [...]

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  Joyce Sheppard wrote a new blog post: Out of Work, Nearly Out of Money  (2 weeks, 2 days ago)
  

  For a jobless, struggling South Carolina man, reality isn’t a political debate
  by Eli Saslow, January 18, 2012, The Washington Post
  CONWAY, S.C. — He awoke to his alarm on Monday morning at 6, just like always, even though his handwritten schedule for the day read only: “Find something to do!” Steven Murdock, 39, poured himself a [...]

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  Joyce Sheppard wrote a new blog post: Mitt’s Real Job Record  (2 weeks, 3 days ago)
  

  GOP Frontrunner Mitt Romney has taken a beating, and rightfully so, in recent weeks over his time at the investment firm Bain Capital. The kind of leveraged buyouts and speculative investments the firm specialized in often came with major layoffs for the companies involved.
  Romney claims he actually created jobs during his time at Bain — [...]

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  Joyce Sheppard wrote a new blog post: Follow Your Lead  (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
  

  Dear UCubed Leaders:
  My New Year’s resolution is to be brief. So the salutation to this letter is shorter. It conveys what I expect will happen this year: You will lead this country in a new direction.
  The Union of Unemployed starts 2012 with 904 cubes … 4,626 activists … and 55,933 UCubed Facebook fans.  [...]

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