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Unemployment fund shortfalls in Vermont may lead to higher employer taxes
Decreases in Vermont’s unemployment fund may prompt large tax increases on employers and a squeeze on benefits for those who lose their jobs. A proposal now before the state legislature would require employers to pay another $40 million in taxes a year for the next two years, while cutting the benefit paid to jobless workers. The state’s unemployment insurance fund may be failing by the end of the year and may have to borrow $35 million in 2010 to remain solvent.
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Labels: jobless, taxes, unemployment, vermont
Obama to give $15 billion to states for Medicaid
President Barack Obama will begin distributing $15 billion to states struggling with Medicaid costs. The money will come from the newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus measure. Some GOP governors may reject the proposed expansion of state unemployment benefits as part of the stimulus package because it will require a tax increase on employers once the stimulus money runs out.
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Labels: Medicaid, Obama, stimulus, taxes, unemployment
The road from jail to job
Good jobs often help to keep lawbreakers from returning to jail. But too often, experts say, ex-offenders can’t find employment, which can create a revolving jailhouse door and higher taxpayer costs. Now, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce is trying to better understand this dynamic, and to figure out ways to change it.
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Labels: employment, jail, Omaha, taxes, The World Herald, unemployment
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