Point (http://www.shrm.org/Publications/HRNews/Pages/UIandCOBRAAgain.aspx):
Both houses of Congress on April 15, 2010, approved another short-term extension for unemployment insurance benefits and a COBRA health insurance premium subsidy for jobless Americans.
President Barack Obama signed the legislation (H.R. 4851) into law just a few hours after it passed the House and Senate. The legislation had been delayed several times as senators grappled with how to pay for the measure’s $18 billion price tag.
When he signed the bill, the president thanked Congress for passing the temporary benefits extension, saying it was critical to help struggling families make ends meet.
“Millions of Americans who lost their jobs in this economic crisis depend on unemployment and health insurance benefits to get by as they look for work and get themselves back on their feet,” Obama said in a written statement. “But as I requested in my budget, I urge Congress to move quickly to extend these benefits through the end of this year.”
The new law will provide relief to jobless workers whose unemployment benefits expired on April 5, 2010. According to the law, these workers must reapply for long-term unemployment benefits to receive their payments retroactively.
Point (Matthew 19:30, 20:1-16): But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.
‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for the usual daily wage,* he sent them into his vineyard. When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the market-place; and he said to them, “You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went. When he went out again about noon and about three o’clock, he did the same. And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why are you standing here idle all day?” They said to him, “Because no one has hired us.” He said to them, “You also go into the vineyard.” When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, “Call the labourers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.” When those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received the usual daily wage.* Now when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them also received the usual daily wage.* And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, saying, “These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.” But he replied to one of them, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?* Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. 15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”* So the last will be first, and the first will be last.’
Point: Isaiah 19:5-10
The waters of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will be parched and dry; its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up;reeds and rushes will rot away. There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile; and all that is sown by the Nile will dry up, be driven away, and be no more. Those who fish will mourn; all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will languish. The workers in flax will be in despair, and the carders and those at the loom will grow pale. Its weavers will be dismayed, and all who work for wages will be grieved.
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