Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010
NumbersUSA's Position:
No PositionTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
For the first time in two years, the unemployment rate dropped, going from 10.2% in October to 10% in November. Despite the drop, the United States still lost more jobs than it created, and as President Obama looks for a low cost solution to the jobs depression, he refuses to consider an immigration suspension.
The SAVE Act received its 100th cosponsor when Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) added his name to the long list. The SAVE Act would make E-Verify mandatory nationwide and increase monitoring of compliance ensuring that only legal workers get jobs during one of the worst jobs depressions in our nation's history.
In a bold, aggressive op-ed today in Politico, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) challenged the sincerity of the President's Jobs Summit today because it is unlikely to look at putting up to 8 million unemployed Americans back to work by removing illegal aliens from their jobs.
Wonder why Washington politicians gathering in Jobs Summits on Thursday show NO interest in pushing illegal aliens out of their jobs in order to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work? A major pro-amnesty coalition has just provided one answer. An article promoted on its website says that illegal aliens are better workers than Americans. If somebody has to be unemployed, it should be the less-desirable American workers who don't have jobs, the article says. Unbelievable? Read on . . .
"So when the federal government has been engaged in enforcement, the boon to American workers has been obvious," says Rep. Steve King of Iowa. The federal government can quickly find jobs for millions of jobless Americans through immigration enforcement, he says: "You don’t have to look any further then when ICE conducted worksite enforcement to see the effects."
A new Washington Post poll reveals that the majority of Republicans feel that their party is not paying enough attention to illegal immigration. The poll found that 61 percent of Republicans think the party is putting too little emphasis on the issue while only 9 percent think they're putting too much emphasis.
Several new reports show that the struggling economy is having a terrible impact on America's Jobless. The news comes at the same time that Rasmussen Reports revealed some troubling survey results. According to a new poll, only 14% of Americans say their company is hiring - the lowest number since February.