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unusual facts about unemployment benefits


Peter Nares

In 1992, Nares' program to provide entrepreneurship training to the unemployed was incorporated into Canada's Employment Insurance legislation.


Killamangiro

The title is a pun on the name of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, but further mixes in the song's lyrics about "killing a man for his giro" - a bank deposit method often associated with British unemployment benefits.


see also

Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal

While no charges were filed, the United States chapter, led by Seagram heir Jeffrey Bronfman, filed suit claiming that the seizure was an illegal violation of the church members' rights; they claimed their usage was permitted under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a law passed by Congress in direct response to the Employment Division v. Smith (1990) ruling, in which the Court ruled that unemployment benefits could be denied to two Native Americans fired for using Peyote.

Joseph M. Keegan

Keegan lost his Senate reelection bid in 1967 after supporting an unpopular bill to provide unemployment benefits for certain striking workers, at the behest of then-Governor Richard J. Hughes.

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The new GI Bill authored by Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) doubled GI Bill college benefits while providing a 13-week extension to federal unemployment benefits.