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Alabama Legislature votes to raise unemployment benefits
May 9, 2008 | In the News
The Associated Press, 5/9/2008, 11:53 a.m. CDT
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The Alabama Legislature has voted to raise the state's maximum weekly unemployment compensation benefit.
The Legislature passed a three-bill package Thursday night that will increase the maximum weekly benefit by $20 in July to $255. Then it will add another $10 in July 2009 to make the maximum weekly benefit $265.
The bills were worked out between labor and business groups, and they passed the Legislature overwhelmingly.
Speaker of the House in state for Democrat event, Lakeshore visit
May 5, 2008 | In the News
Birmingham News, Dean, 05/03/08
**Siegelman also at annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner **
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a speech before Alabama Democrats on Friday night accused President Bush of leading the nation into war, into debt and politicizing the nation's Justice Department.
The charge that federal lawyers under Bush have played politics with the law sent a charge through the crowd of about 500 in a Birmingham ballroom that featured former Gov. Don Siegelman. He was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to almost seven years in prison in 2007 on federal corruption charges, charges that Siegelman and his supporters have maintained were politically motivated.
