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          <description>The Department is currently conducting its Annual Prevailing Wage Survey for state-funded construction projects. The Department mailed out on January 5, 2009 approximately 2500 survey forms to contractors and various interested parties. The completed survey must be postmarked or returned no later than February 9, 2009 to the Department of Labor for the data to be used in the calculation of the Delaware Prevailing Wage Rates which be issued on or before March 15, 2009.</description>
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            <description>Beginning with the week of March 29-April 4, 2009, unemployed Delaware workers will be eligible for up to thirteen additional weeks of unemployment insurance benefits under the provisions of the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.</description>
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            <description> On Friday, November 21, 2008, President Bush signed the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 that amends Title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 that was enacted this past June.</description>
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