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...total unemployed had been looking for work for longer than half a year, up from 28.9% in June. "This recession is taking people a very long time relative to past recessions to find another job," says John Irons, policy director at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. Traditionally the U.S. has been able to maintain unemployment at 5% or less, while Europe has for the past few decades been stuck at 8%, even during periods of economic growth. (See "What to Expect When the Recession Ends...
Democrats in Washington have taken extraordinary steps to address long-term unemployment in this recession. Last year Congress added 33 extra weeks of unemployment benefits. As part of the stimulus bill this year, Congress added an additional potential 20 weeks for the worst hit states, raising to 79 weeks the maximum time a laid-off worker can draw unemployment assistance while looking for a job. To combat "hysteresis," or the atrophying of job skills in the labor force, the Labor Department issued an opinion earlier this year that workers can still draw unemployment insurance even if they work a volunteer...
...Congress to apply the crack-powder parity to mandatory minimums retroactively. The House bill is silent on that issue, and the Senate bill is expected to be as well. That would mean another fight from advocates for a retroactivity amendment. Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based reform group, asks: "If we've been doing something that's unfair for 23 years now, don't we have an obligation to address that unfairness...
...Washington Post • Mouthpiece Theater, an attempt at humor as lame and unfunny as anything that has ever existed on the Internet, is mercy-killed by, but not before being brilliantly and brutally savaged...
Before leaving Kenya for her next stop, South Africa, Clinton met with Somali President Sheik Sharif as part of U.S. efforts to help the weak Transitional Federal Government fight the militant Islamic al-Shabaab insurgency, which is supported by neighboring Eritrea. She was clear that this was in Washington's interest, warning that "if al-Shabaab were to obtain a haven in Somalia which could then attract al-Qaeda and other terrorist actions, it would be a threat to the U.S." To make the point, Clinton visited the site of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi...