Tag: unemployment insurance

Senator Berger outlines the far right plan

January 16, 2013 at 11:51 amCategory:Uncategorized

by

Phil BergerWRAL has video of all 36 minutes of Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger’s surprisingly far-ranging press conference today and today’s edition of the Fitzsimon File will have a thorough analysis shortly.

For those looking for some preliminary quick takeaways, however, here were a few of the highlights/low-lights:

Berger has decided to go all in with the far right agenda and appears to see it as his pathway to seeking the GOP nomination to take on Kay Hagan in 2014. Moreover, his legislative “agenda” was/is an utterly predictable recitation of Locke Foundation/Civitas/Art Pope priorities: Read More…

Tuesday committee meeting is likely a preview of the 2013 legislative session

January 7, 2013 at 5:20 pmCategory:Uncategorized

by

Looking to get a handle on the kinds of initiatives the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly is likely to feature? Then, checkout Tuesday’s meeting of the Revenue Laws Study Committee. It is expected that the committee will take up (and perhaps formally endorse) a proposal drafted mostly in secret with the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce late in 2012 that would eviscerate the state unemployment insurance system and impose massive reductions in benefits and eligibility of a kind never imposed before anywhere else in the United States.

If the committee balks and evidences at least some caution, this could be an indication that there is some hope for the 2013 session in some areas. If it plows ahead as expected, you’ll have a strong signal that the Pope-ites are in full control and fully committed to repealing decades of progress in North Carolina. 

Stay tuned. 

 

Some seats still remain for Monday’s Crucial Conversation

January 4, 2013 at 9:40 amCategory:Uncategorized

by

It’s not too late to RSVP for Monday’s Crucial Conversation luncheon with national unemployment insurance expert George Wentworth. If you want to be on top of one of the first (and most important) issues likely to dominate discussion in the early days of the 2013 legislative session, don’t miss this important event.

How North Carolina can fix its unemployment insurance system without harming workers and their families or the economy: Featuring national employment law expert George Wentworth

Read More…

An alternative viewpoint: Don’t miss Monday’s luncheon on unemployment insurance

January 2, 2013 at 1:57 pmCategory:Uncategorized

by

Business groups and their conservative allies have been holding forth a great deal in recent weeks about their plans for altering some of the basic components of North Carolina’s tax and safety net systems. Today, Governor-elect McCrory even made the remarkably ill-informed and radical statement at an NC Bankers Association event that he didn’t know if he would allow North Carolina to accept federal unemployment insurance funds approved as part of the “fiscal cliff” deal. 

If you’re looking for alternative points of view that explore how we can modernize these critical systems without slashing essential services or harming working families, you owe it to yourself to attend next Monday’s NC Policy Watch Crucial Conversation: “How North Carolina can fix its unemployment insurance system without harming workers and their families or the economy, featuring national employment law expert George Wentworth.”    

Click here for more information.

Don’t miss January 7 Crucial Conversation on the future of unemployment insurance

December 28, 2012 at 8:26 amCategory:Uncategorized

by

The New Year is right around the corner along with a raft of important policy debates and decisions. Please join us on January 7 as we grapple with one of the most important issues confronting state government — the future of our state’s most important anti-poverty and middle class preservation program: unemployment insurance.

Unfortunately, right now, state lawmakers appear determined at this point to advance “reform” legislation negotiated in secret with the state Chamber of Commerce that would slash benefits and eligibility in ways not seen anywhere else in the United States. Such cuts would almost certainly have a disastrous impact on tens of thousands of workers, their families and communities and, quite likely, the state’s economy as a whole.

Happily it does not have to be this way. According to experts like George Wentworth, a Senior Attorney at the National Employment Law Project, , there are balanced and responsible paths toward long-term economic solvency for the Trust Fund that will not decimate worker benefits and eligibility.

Don’t miss this chance to hear from one of the nation’s experts on this vital subject at this critical time.

Click here to register Read More…