by admin | Sep 3, 2009 | Business, Politics / Govt
High unemployment and low contributions have battered Missouri’s unemployment trust fund, now projected to carry a $2.6 billion deficit by 2012. Missouri’s unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.3%, driving the unemployment trust fund into the red by $600...
by admin | Aug 20, 2009 | Business, Politics / Govt
Missouri’s effort to secure $133 million federal dollars to expand unemployment benefits has been denied, because a compromise measure didn’t meet federal demands. Congress offered Missouri the money to extend unemployment benefits to residents who lost...
by admin | May 21, 2009 | Business, Politics / Govt
Federal authorities question whether the state legislature complied with the regulations required to access $133 million dollars in unemployment money. A business groups says the legislature shouldn’t have been grasping for the money anyway. President Jim...
by admin | Feb 3, 2009 | Politics / Govt
The State Department of Labor is asking the federal government for $260 million to cover a projected short-fall in the unemployment trust fund … the fund’s expected to go into the red as early as next week. According to spokeswoman Wanda Seeny, as...
by admin | Aug 20, 2008 | Politics / Govt
A new system for distributing unemployment benefits to out of work Missourians went into effect in July. And that system is now coming under fire from some people who have lost their jobs and from others who are simply concerned about what they see as problems...
