A new JEC report offers a comprehensive overview of women’s increasing influence in the economy and highlights the challenges that women continue to face in the workplace and in society.
Dec 03 2010
JEC Chair Maloney: Unprecedented to Stop Unemployment Benefits With Long-Term Unemployment Rate This High
At a JEC hearing this morning, BLS Commissioner Dr. Keith Hall highlighted that November’s long-term unemployment rate was higher than at any other time that Congress cut off federal unemployment benefits.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Chair of the JEC, released the following statement on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' November jobs report showing that the unemployment rate increased to 9.8 percent and 39,000 total nonfarm jobs were added.
Dec 01 2010
JEC Chair Maloney’s Statement on the Report from the President’s Bipartisan Deficit Commission
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the JEC, released the followed statement today reacting to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform’s recommendations for reducing the federal deficit.
Job growth in the fourth quarter of 2010 appears more robust than it was in the middle of 2010, according to the November edition of the monthly state-by-state report released by the JEC today.
Nov 18 2010
JEC Report Shows Extending Unemployment Insurance Benefits Program Critical to Economic Recovery
A new report by the JEC finds that prematurely ending the federal unemployment insurance benefits program would drain the economy of $80 billion in purchasing power and result in the loss of over one million jobs over the next year.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Chair of the JEC, released the following statement about the October jobs report showing that while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, 151,000 total nonfarm jobs were added.
A new JEC report finds that Social Security accounts for more than two-thirds of all income for women aged 65 and over, and that any efforts to tinker with this program could have a dramatic impact on retired women who rely on Social Security benefits to make ends meet.