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"...is the long-running controversy about the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, a discretionary spending source based out of the governor's..."

"...the COVID-19 pandemic and left wondering about eligibility for unemployment benefits...."

"...the COVID-19 pandemic and left wondering about eligibility for unemployment benefits...."

"...reject federal stimulus money to shore up the state's unemployment insurance program. This comes despite a warning from Texas..."

"...a job, you'll receive a 13-week extension on your unemployment benefits. So, if you're one of the 200,000 or..."

"...federal stimulus money that Texas could have claimed for unemployment-insurance funds. Why? The policy reason is that the cash..."

"...$555 million. That extra cash would have gone to unemployment insurance. Yet Perry said no, even after his own..."

"...and recommend rejecting the $555 million in federal stimulus funds that would be dedicated to unemployment insurance. The state..."

"...most notable casualty was the potential expansion of health insurance to another 80,000 Texas children, who will go without..."

"...reasonable request for an audit of the Texas Enterprise Fund. The TEF is a government-run business incentive program; from..."

"...Harper Brown, R-Dallas, wrote on Facebook that "TxDot, the Insurance Department and Voter ID are all likely issues that..."

"...over how $120 million was transferred from the overstretched unemployment-insurance fund to the Texas Emerging Technology Fund – including..."

"...lawmakers are working on legislation to shore up the unemployment-insurance system – including mechanisms to receive the $555 million..."

"...with local philanthropic institutions and employers to establish a fund for workers who become unemployed or underemployed due to..."

"...Gov. Rick Perry's tap dance on the question of unemployment insurance and, more specifically, his suggestion that he may..."

"...Rick Perry's refusal to take $555 million in federal unemployment insurance cash has taken a double blow from legislators...."

"...special election that leaves little time for campaigning and fundraising. But with Howard declining to move out of the..."

"...Remember that $555 million in federal stimulus money for unemployment insurance that Gov. Rick Perry made a big noise..."

"...Camel spent most of 2002 collecting $462 in weekly unemployment checks from another state. But, rather than sulk on..."

"...across the state to tell legislators that cutting school funding is a terrible idea. "For those of us that..."

"...Woodlands, that would require drug testing of applicants for unemployment insurance...."

"...already been negotiated under Gov. Rick Perry's Texas Enterprise Fund. (The TEF supports "free enterprise" by donating taxpayer money..."

"...need for the Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabiliza-tion Funding (aka "the stimulus package") that he chairs. The Obama..."

"...with local philanthropic institutions and employers to establish a fund for workers who become unemployed or underemployed due to..."

"...The competitive grants are funded out of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better..."

"...revenues, a tax base overdue for effective reform, rising unemployment, falling health-insurance coverage, crumbling infrastructure, and agencies in urgent..."

"...Texas, large numbers of Louisiana residents have no health insurance, so a fair number of evacuees arrived in Austin..."

"...AT&T to Wal-Mart) prevent their fired employees from getting unemployment benefits. Sound like fun?..."

"...disability. Because of my age, there is no supplemental insurance available. Eventually I'll need to use a wheelchair and..."

"...with money from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. The Balcones National Wildlife Refuge was specifically created in..."