http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/15506/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/unemployment-fight-shows-media-will-help-liberals-protect-their-jobs <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Senate Democrats defeated a GOP filibuster of a $34 billion bill to extend unemployment benefits to 2.5 million out-of-work Americans on July 20, after Obama blasted the Republicans for blocking the bill.</p> <p>Obama tried to cast Republicans in a hypocritical and callous light with his Rose Garden speech June 19: “The same people who didn’t have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are now saying we shouldn’t offer relief to middle-class Americans.”</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/unemployment-fight-shows-media-will-help-liberals-protect-their-jobs" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Business Economy 34billion 9.5percentunemployment benefits boehner Budget bunning Deficit GaryWolfram jobs jobsbill jobsextender JPMorganChase LeeCowan NBC obama unemployment unemploymentinsurance Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:08:22 +0000 admin 27169 at http://archive2.mrc.org