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...both parties - that also boosts the broader economy by keeping consumer dollars in circulation. In normal economic times, workers typically receive, depending on the state, up to 26 weeks of benefits, with the possibility of a 13-week extension. Following extensions passed under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, jobless benefits can now run as long as 99 weeks - nearly two years. During the 1982-83 recession, the longest time a person could collect benefits was about 55 weeks.(See how Americans are spending...
...what I came here to do, a President sighs, to which the answer is, Too damn bad. Lonely and frustrated is what being President means, and when Obama summons his predecessors' ghosts late at night, they can tell him how it went. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...Barack Obama's top 10 sound bites...
...happen. And we are more or less going to be on schedule. We are probably ahead of schedule so far in terms of recruiting and training Afghans. Although I've said that we should set very modest expectations of what's sustainable to transfer to an Afghan government. (See Barack Obama's diplomatic efforts...
...Brown's victory - some called it "the Scott heard round the world" - on the eve of the first anniversary of Barack Obama's Inauguration was an ominous sign for Democrats for the midterm elections ahead and a potentially crippling blow to Obama's entire agenda. Brown ran explicitly on a promise to be the "41st Senator," who would give the Republicans the power to block what he called "the trillion-dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people," one that will "raise taxes, hurt Medicare, destroy jobs and run our nation deeper into debt...