Business
groups want the state to raise their taxes in order to shore up the state’s
unemployment insurance trust fund. But
in exchange for paying more, the businesses also want benefits reduced for unemployed
workers.
There’s
plenty of talk about layoffs, but state Labor Commissioner Patricia Moulton
Powden says there are some signs that the economy may have begun to stabilize.
By
agreeing to a number of provisions in the stimulus law, the state will be able
to get almost $14 million in extra money for people who have lost their
jobs.
We
return now to our occasional series on how the recession is affecting
Vermonters, with an update on Meghann Cline. She’s the mother of 3 young
children who’s been homeless since last fall. The
economy has made her situation even worse.
Today as part of our Hitting Home series, with charitable and corporate giving down, VPR’s Nina Keck reports on the fight to save a landmark arts center in Rutland.
A few displaced workers in the Northeaast Kingdom are doing what may seem like the impossible in these dark days. They’re starting their own businesses. VPR’s Charlotte Albright recently met one of them in St. Johnsbury.