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Coalition makes push to add jobless benefits.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 25-JAN-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Coalition makes push to add jobless benefits.(Legislature)(Economy: Lawmakers and the governor say they will consider the issue.)

Article Excerpt
Byline: DAVID STEVES The Register-Guard

SALEM - A diverse coalition led by labor and business groups called on the Legislature to extend $131 million in additional unemployment benefits to part-time workers, those who have already exhausted their benefits and other people laid off in Oregon's recession.

Led by the Oregon AFL-CIO and Associated Oregon Industries, the group is pushing for its package of new and extended benefits to be approved at the Feb. 8 special session, so laid-off workers can receive more money beginning in March.

Richard Butrick, president of AOI, said the proposal would not cost taxpayers or employers additional dollars, but would combine $55 million in available federal dollars with $76 million...

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