Labor and Employment

Latest News

HNR: Congress Enacts Medicaid and Education Aid Urgently Needed by States (8/11/10)
HNR: Pressure Mounts to Cut FY 2011 Domestic Appropriations;
Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Bill Approved in Full Committee (8/11/10)
Rockefeller Institute: State & Local Employment Down Since Start of Recession (8/10/10)
HNR: House and Senate Set FY 2011 Spending Targets Lower Than President’s;
Spending Tight, but Some Growth in House Labor-HHS Appropriations (7/26/10)
HNR: Unemployment Benefits Restored for Millions of Workers (7/26/10)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CBPP: July 30 Data Release Will Capture Only a Portion of the Jobs Created or Saved by the Recovery Act (7/30/10)
CBPP: Going, Going, Almost Gone: Job-Creating TANF Emergency Fund Set to Expire. Fund Will Help Place 240,000 Unemployed Individuals in Jobs by End of September (7/26/10)
CEPR: The Adult Recession: Age-Adjusted Unemployment at Post-War Highs (July 2010)
EPI: Job Creation at a Glacial Pace (7/2/10)
CAP: Opening Doors: How to Make the Workforce Investment Act Work for Women (July 2010)
CAP & NELP: Today's Unemployment Crisis by the Numbers (June 2010)

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Government Resources

House Education and Labor Committee: Teachers Jobs Saved by H.R. 1586 (8/5/10)
House Education and Labor Committee: Local Jobs for America Act: Estimated Funding and Estimated Jobs Created/Saved
DOL: Job Availability During a Recession: An Examination of the Number of Unemployed Persons Per Job Opening (March 2010)
House Ways and Means Committee: Unemployment Extension Briefing Materials (6/9/08)
Includes reasons for extending benefits; a brief summary of "The Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act" H.R. 5749; and the estimated number of workers by state eligible for extended unemployment benefits under H.R. 5749.
Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Senate Appropriations Committee: S. Rept. 109-103 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (7/14/05)
CBO: Cost Estimate for S. 1021- Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2005 (7/1/05)
House Appropriations Committee: H. Rept. 109-143 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/21/05)
Status of "Workforce Investment Amendments of 2005" (S. 1021 introduced 5/18/05)

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