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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Deal Doesn't Help Workers Who've Already Exhausted Jobless Benefits - NYTimes.com

Deal Doesn't Help Workers Who've Already Exhausted Jobless Benefits - NYTimes.com: "The 13-month extension of unemployment benefits offers no additional help for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have already reached, or are fast approaching, the 99-week limit on unemployment benefits. By contrast, my colleague David Kocieniewski noted in his article on Wednesday that a quarter of the savings from this compromise will go to the wealthiest 1 percent.

“There is nothing for someone who is in that unfortunate position,” Chad Stone, chief economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said of the so-called 99ers."

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