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(Update) Labour on Welfare in UK / Rachel Reeves’s first major speech (video)
“A Labour government will introduce a Basic Skills Test to assess all new claimants for Job Seekers Allowance within six weeks of claiming benefits. Those who dont have the skills they need for a job will have to take up training alongside their jobsearch or lose their benefits. Labours Basic Skills Test will give the long-term unemployed a better chance of finding a job and will help us to earn our way out of the cost-of-living crisis.” Continue reading
UK Monetary Policy / Is the target unemployment rate a trigger or a threshold ?
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron defended Mark Carney after the Bank of England governor said that policy makers will review forward guidance next month. Carney, who said last year that unemployment would need to fall to 7 percent before the BOE would consider raising interest rates, has seen the jobless rate drop faster than forecast. … Continue reading
Manitoba / Why the Canada Jobs Grant will not work there
The Canada Jobs Grant will not work for people who face barriers to employment, especially Aboriginal Manitobans. As Shauna Mackinnon wrote in The Canada Jobs Grant: Perpetuating Aboriginal Exclusion, the new federal program will take money away from successful programs that are helping unemployed people get the training they require to move into the labour force. … Continue reading
US / Addressing income inequality is not government’s priority job voters says to Fox Poll
A new Fox New poll shows a possible disconnect between President Barack Obama and voters on what the president says will be the top priority for the rest of his term: reducing income inequality. Continue reading
Labour on Welfare in UK / Make benefit claimants take skills tests and training
A Labour government will introduce a Basic Skills Test to assess all new claimants for Job Seekers Allowance within six weeks of claiming benefits. Those who dont have the skills they need for a job will have to take up training alongside their jobsearch or lose their benefits Continue reading
Immigrant Welfare Rules in UK / Housing pay to be removed
The U.K. is to stop immigrants from receiving payments to cover housing costs unless they have jobs, as political parties seek to show voters they’re tough on welfare. “No longer can people come here from abroad and expect to get something for nothing,” Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Home Secretary Theresa May … Continue reading
Canada Job Grant / The battle is not over yet
The battle between Ottawa and the provinces and territories over a contentious federal jobs training proposal appears far from over. The provinces are glad the federal Conservatives are offering more flexibility on how the Canada Job Grant would be funded, but there’s no agreement yet, Manitoba’s jobs minister said after a conference call with her … Continue reading
Atlantic Canada / 10 Apprenticeship programs being harmonized
Within the next four years, the project will harmonize 10 trades across the four provinces beginning with bricklayers, cooks, instrumentation and control technicians and construction electricians Continue reading
Moms in US / Trailing on Paid Leave
…Only 12 percent of workers get paid time off to care for a baby or a sick parent, according to the U.S. Labor Department. Rhode Island this month became the third state to start a paid family leave insurance program, which was initiated by California in 2004 and by New Jersey in 2009. A bill introduced … Continue reading
Immigration and Welfare in Europe / Does it really foster integration ?
As part of the 28-nation European Union, Polish citizens have most of the same welfare rights here as Britons, under a European Union policy designed to foster European integration and create a vibrant economic market with mobile workers. Instead, it seems to be driving Europeans apart. At a time when some governments’ austerity policies have … Continue reading
President Obama’s Jobs Programs / The first of three institutes announced
President Obama, seeking to fulfill a pledge from his last State of the Union address before his next one in two weeks, traveled to North Carolina on Wednesday to announce the establishment of a manufacturing institute to help create well-paying jobs. A consortium, led by North Carolina State University and comprising 18 companies and six … Continue reading
US / Testimonies of Americans who rely on unemployment insurance (Video)
Americans who rely on unemployment insurance describe exactly what this essential lifeline has meant to them, and what’s at risk if House Republicans refuse to renew it. On Nancy Pelosi‘s Channel, Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 112th Congress. Related articles Unemployment Insurance in US / Worse than most other developed countries (video) … Continue reading
US Monetary Policy / On unemployment vs the fear of inflation
The Fed’s reliance on the unemployment rate for determining when to pull back on bond purchases may prove troublesome. That’s because statistics on the supply of labor are notoriously tricky to evaluate, particularly when it comes to gaging their relationship to inflation Continue reading
Update on Unemployment Insurance Extension in US
The US Senate passed a procedural vote Tuesday to extend long-term unemployment insurance that ended late last year. The vote does not guarantee final passage, and the measure still must pass the House of Representatives, according to a report by USA Today. The 60-37 vote with six Republicans voting with the majority of Democrats shows … Continue reading
Unemployment Insurance Extension in US / Transcripts: President Obama’s and House Speaker John Boehner Jan. 7 remarks
PRESIDENT OBAMA: … Five years ago this month, our economy was shedding 800,000 jobs, just in one month. But as Americans buckled down and worked hard and sacrificed, we began to come back. And our businesses have created more than 8 million new jobs since we hit the bottom. Our auto industry’s gone from bust … Continue reading
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