Jobless Benefits Expiring
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Obama makes jobless benefits push from Hawaii, hits the beach
How President Obama spent the seventh day of his holiday vacation in Hawaii on Friday:
— GYM: Obama woke up for an early-morning workout at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, a short drive from his family’s vacation home in Kailua.
— CALLS TO SENATORS: The president separately called two senators to tell them he plans to push Congress to quickly extend expiring federal unemployment benefits.
More than 1 million Americans will lose benefits Saturday because Congress didn’t extend them. Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada and Democratic Sen....
From the Center
As the Politics Play Out, Key Jobless Benefit Lapses
An emergency jobless-benefits program due to expire this weekend would pinch the finances of more than a million Americans, setting the stage for the what could become lawmakers' first flashpoint of the midterm election year.
While the program's end would barely dent the broader economy, the money at stake is meaningful. The federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation, launched during the middle of the recession, pays on average $300 a week to 1.3 million long-term jobless who have exhausted the roughly 26 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits most states provide. If extended,...
From the Left
It's Not Just Poor People Getting Hosed When Congress Lets Unemployment Insurance Expire
David Torian is an Ivy League-educated lawyer and a onetime chief of staff to then-Rep. Michael McNulty (D-N.Y.). He has 23 years of experience in congressional and government relations, witnessed and practiced politics at the highest level, and has been well compensated along the way.
On Dec. 28, he will also be among the 1.3 million Americans who will lose their long-term federal unemployment insurance benefits.
Unemployment is not just a blue collar problem. As Torian's experience shows, it can affect even Beltway power players. And it comes without much,...
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