Job Went Overseas? Tough Luck, Says Congress

[OhioChick]

Congress Fails to Extend Aid for Workers Displaced by Foreign Competition Over Sleeping Bag Deal

Feb. 14, 2011

Congress on Saturday failed to extend the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which provides aid to some 150,000 workers unemployed because their jobs were outsourced overseas or their company couldn't compete with imported goods. In the past two years about 360,000 Americans have qualified for TAA benefits, which include reimbursement for schooling and retraining costs to find jobs in a new and different industry.

The benefits paid vary by state, but an average worker enrolled in a year-long training program gets around $15,000, in addition to what TAA pays for tuition.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, in a Feb. 9 statement urging Congress to extend the program's benefits, called TAA "an essential lifeline" helping trade-impacted workers get job training, placement assistance and income support needed to help them succeed in "a tough job market."

More: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/congress-fails-extend-benefits-workers-laid-off-foreign/story?id=12896112

[RockaFowler]

1. Where are the jobs Boner??

[FiveGoodMen]

2. If the Dems don't care, the pukes certainly don't.

[truedelphi]

3. The Good Cop, Bad Cop duopoly of the American Poltiical

Party system is a scary one.

[ihavenobias]

4. Thanks for posting. n/t