Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Sacramento, CA, United States (AHN) – California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday was set to unveil an updated budget plan to close a record $26.6 billion deficit while taking into account better-than-expected April tax receipts and Republican opposition to a June ballot on tax extensions. The announcement will come [...]
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Help for the long-term jobless? Maybe
January 31st, 2011
davidguide California has 314,188 people who have been unemployed more than 99 weeks and have been cut off from jobless benefits, according to the state Employment Development Department, but there’s a glimmer – and we’re talking a flicker – of hope for… View full post on All Stories
New U.S. Unemployment Claims Drop To 421,000
December 11th, 2010
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New claims for unemployment compensation dropped to 421,000 for the week ending Dec. 4, a decrease of 17,000 claims from the week before, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Not all jobless workers are insured by the unemployment compensation program. The advance [...]
UCLA Anderson Forecast: National Outlook Improves as Fed Goes All-In; California Continues a Slow Growth Recovery
December 7th, 2010
davidguide LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In its fourth quarterly report of 2010, the UCLA Anderson Forecast calls for “modest growth and distressingly high unemployment” for most of 2011, with an acceleration of growth late next year that will gradually lower the unemployment rate. The California forecast reads similarly, with slow growth expected until the end of next year. [...]
Legislative Democrats don’t want another fight with Schwarzenegger
December 6th, 2010
davidguide The lame-duck governor wants action on the state’s fiscal crisis, but most lawmakers would rather wait for Brown to take office. California lawmakers are in no mood to tackle the state’s latest deficit before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office next month, even as the governor prepares to declare a fiscal emergency and call a special [...]
U.S. Experimental Space Warplane Ends Orbital Test
December 6th, 2010
davidguide Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Air Force has completed a 7-month flight test for what is believed to be a futuristic space fighter plane after the unmanned spacecraft left its orbit and landed at a California airbase on Friday. The spacecraft dubbed X-37B or [...]
U.S. Unemployment Compensation Claims Rise Again
December 3rd, 2010
davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims rose again last week after falling to the lowest levels in two years the week before, according to the United States Department of Labor. The advance figures for seasonally adjusted initial claims for the week ending Nov. 27 was 436,000, [...]
States focus on Medicaid budget challenges
November 20th, 2010
davidguide Nearly missed in the noise from newly elected politicians vowing to upend the Obama administrations health care reform law was a federal decision allowing California to start implementing it and improve its fiscal situation in the process. On Election Day, California got word it would receive $10 billion in federal Medicaid money to extend coverage [...]
Update: Pentagon Still In The Dark Over Missile Vapor Trail
November 10th, 2010
davidguide Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Pentagon on Tuesday denied any Department of Defense or other U.S. agencies involvement in a mystery sighting reported by a KCBS News helicopter claiming to have captured a footage on what it describes as a vapor trail of a missile rising from [...]
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