Democrats had been pushing for extending benefits to laid-off workers as unemployment rates continue to rise.
The changes freeze wages and cut certain benefits such as the jobs bank for laid-off workers.
The key to that should be a recent deal over payments to laid-off workers.
The committee option worked in 1984 for 18, 000 laid-off workers of Ames Department Stores.
They slashed state unemployment benefits and rejected federally funded Emergency Unemployment Compensation to 170, 000 laid-off workers.
Cost is clearly a major issue for most laid-off workers, says Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
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In many sectors, there are legitimate economies of scale that prevent laid-off workers from self-organising into smaller firms.
The bleak unemployment picture has sent many laid-off workers looking for internships that might lead to full-time jobs.
Tax credits or subsidies could make health insurance affordable for laid-off workers who are not eligible for Medicare.
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Generous employment benefits encourage laid-off workers to continue seeking jobs in dying industries rather than train for something new.
Historically only 9% of laid-off workers have opted for Cobra (named for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986).
Today, there are factories in Iowa where once laid-off workers are back on the job building wind towers, building wind blades.
First, we'll open new doors to higher education and job training programs to recently laid-off workers who are receiving unemployment benefits.
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Cisco offered to pay one-third of salary, plus full health care and options-vesting, to laid-off workers taking jobs at not-for-profit organisations.
Podesta said Congress could extend unemployment benefits for laid-off workers and provide assistance to states grappling with increased Medicaid costs quickly.
Low rates of unemployment in the countries which have shifted furthest away from manufacturing suggest that most laid-off workers have found new jobs.
It means that laid-off workers might not be able to count on temporary assistance or training to help them get a new job.
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Much of the money made by the state firms is being soaked up by payments for welfare functions, including the wages of laid-off workers.
Many of the laid-off workers had taken out loans for their children's college tuition, but they found it impossible to pay back the loans immediately.
Since few Latin Americans are covered by unemployment insurance this could include training for laid-off workers and temporary employment schemes, such as repairing rural roads.
Yet such schemes allowed laid-off workers to sell the products of reputable firms such as Amway, an American maker of consumer goods, with a passion.
And across the country, GM plans to hire back every single one of its laid-off workers by the end of the year -- every single one.
"The growing army of laid-off workers demands an expansion of the private economy, " says Zhong Pengrong, director of the Beijing Prospect Consultancy, an advocate of private enterprise.
Democrats want to give direct payments to laid-off workers to help with COBRA premiums, saying there is no guarantee governors will use the federal funds for assistance with health insurance.
Moreover, they are in no hurry to agree to a new law, since they think the woes of exporters, and their laid-off workers, can only help them at the polls.
Prior to the subsidy, Salerno says, 20 percent to 25 percent of laid-off workers at the company continued their insurance under COBRA. "We're running close to 50 percent now, " he says.
Tom Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said that given the financial turmoil, it was "remarkable" that the 3, 000 current and laid-off workers represented by the union will still have retirement benefits.
Also, Republicans seem to be concerned that Democrats will try to add too many new programs to any stimulus package designed to bolster the economy, and Democrats are already saying the president's proposals to help laid-off workers don't go far enough.
While some laid-off workers may get health insurance coverage though a spouse or partner, their research suggests that only about 14 percent of people who are not eligible for COBRA could get coverage through a partner or some other source after losing their job, she says.
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