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Where the 1.3 million people losing unemployment aid this week live
mystery-ak:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/26/where-the-1-3-million-people-losing-unemployment-aid-this-week-live/?hpid=z3
Where the 1.3 million people losing unemployment aid this week live
By Niraj Chokshi
December 26 at 11:16 am
Darker shading means a larger share of a state’s population will lose emergency jobless benefits Saturday. Scroll down for an interactive map. (Source: Committee on Ways and Means Democrats/Labor Department)
A projected 1.3 million people will lose emergency unemployment benefits when they expire Saturday.
Congress offered the extended benefits as unemployment ballooned during the Great Recession and has put off their expiration several times since. But when the two parties struck a budget deal this month, another postponement was notably missing. When the aid expires Saturday, the unemployed will only be able to collect a maximum 26 weeks of benefits in most parts of the U.S., down from roughly twice as much in many states.
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flowers:
bkmk
SouthTexas:
It should drop. 99 weeks is not unemployment, it's freakin' retirement!
Rapunzel:
--- Quote from: SouthTexas on December 29, 2013, 10:35:10 am ---It should drop. 99 weeks is not unemployment, it's freakin' retirement!
--- End quote ---
:amen:
Oceander:
Let's think about this strategically, folks. We have elections coming up that will be vitally important to this country, so we need to consider which sort of optics are going to help, and which are going to hurt. Hint: giving the democrats the opportunity to portray the GOP, once again, as a bunch of heartless meanies is not going to help.
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