The Bahamas’ National Insurance Board (NIB) is the government agency responsible for managing the country’s social security system. The NIB provides various social security benefits, including pensions, disability benefits, maternity benefits, funeral benefits, and unemployment benefits. NIB was established on October 7, 1974, by the National Insurance Act, which was passed by the Bahamian government
they ve got very different ideas about how to accomplish fixing it, including what to do about an unemployment benefit extension and boosting the minimum wage. joining me now, senator tom harkin. always good to see you, senator. good morning. good morning, chris. you ve been leading this effort to boost the minimum wage to $10.10. where does that stand right now? we ll have it on the senate floor hopefully in about two weeks, around the first of february. right now we re focused on increasing the unemployment compensation for people out of work. we re focused on that right now, but probably early february we ll be on a minimum wage bill. and the fact that john boehner says he s opposed to raising it right now? he says he s opposed to it, but that can t stop us from moving ahead, at least on the senate side, to try to address this huge inequality in the american workforce.
but house republicans argue the costs should be offset with spending cuts. senators rand paul and chuck schumer laid out their arguments for the bill yesterday. i m not opposed to unemployment insurance. i am opposed to having it without paying for it. i think it s wrong to borrow money from china or put up money for it. what i ve always said is it needs to be paid for but we also need to do something for long-term employed people. for the first five years of the obama administration, the two issues that dominated were health care and budget deficit. this year, dealing with declining middle class incomes and not enough job growth will be the number one issue. and if on the first day of the new session the republican party says they won t even support unemployment benefit extension, the original round was started by george bush when unemployment was 5.6% and they will show themselves so far out of the
welcome back to the ed show. this is the story for the folks who take a shower after work. of course, we on this program have been highlighting the need to address income inequality for a long time here on the ed show. people today on my radio show say well, what is income inequality. great question. when we have the american people asking that question, now we can address the issue. new york democratic senator chuck schumer says that the republican position on unemployment is insulting to american workers, and they are dead wrong. senator schumer has been one of the biggest wall street friendly senators, but now he is on the side of 1.3 million americans who were knocked off of unemployment benefits last month. if on the first day of the new session the republican party says they won t even support unemployment benefit extension, the original round was started by george w. bush when unemployment was 5.6%, they re going to show themselves so far out of the mainstream, it s going
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