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...benefits, and many of those who do receive benefits are getting smaller checks. Begun in 1935, under the auspices of the Social Security Act, unemployment compensation is funded by a combination of federal and state payroll taxes imposed on employers. Though benefits vary, most states give eligible workers a maximum of 26 weeks of unemployment pay. The checks, which are based on workers' previous earnings and length of employment, range from a weekly maximum of $222 in Alaska down to $90 in Alabama. By comparison, the average weekly manufacturing wage in September last year...
...weeks of benefits were paid out; Washington and the states split the extra costs evenly. Under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program, as amended in 1974, employees who lost their jobs because of foreign competition, such as auto and steel workers, received up to 70% of their wages for a maximum of 18 months. These jobless workers, whose numbers reached 281,000 in fiscal 1981, also received regular unemployment checks, and some of them wound up with more money after taxes than they had when they were working...
Reagan is expected to ask to cut the allocation for Pell grants--direct gifts to needy students--from $2.3 billion to $1.4 billion next year, and to tighten eligibility rules so that the maximum qualifying family income is $14,000, rather than the current...
Jewett said he hopes to set up meetings with students in the Houses this spring to determine the maximum level of work-study time and post graduate debt students feel they can absorb...
Lyman said the office is in the midst of budget negotiations with the Faculty which will decide on next year's allocation for financial aid. She agreed with Jewett that "we regretting pretty close" to a maximum debt burden students should have to stand after graduation and estimated the breaking point at about $10,000 for an undergraduate...