We strongly believe that if every member of congress would take even a few minutes to speak personally with unemployed workers, there would not be any question at all about the need to extend the federal ui program. More than anything else, they want a job. But finding work remains very difficult in an economy that still has one point 5 million fewer jobs than before the recession started six years ago. We have never had anything close to such a sustained job deficit after any recent downturn. It has been said in opposition to an extension that the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program was adopted for extraordinary circumstances that are disappearing. No. No. These extraordinary circumstances continue, as indicated in the report issued just this morning by president obamas council of economic advisers. It highlights that the current longterm Unemployment Rate is at least twice as high as it was at the expiration of every previous extended ui benefit program. The extraordi
Good evening, im jim axelrod and this is a western edition of the newscast. One million woke up without 1. 3 million americans woke up this morning without this Unemployment Benefits and several million more could lose theirs over the course of the next year. The federal Program Designed to help the longterm unemployed has expired and anyone who has been collecting unemployment for more than 26 weeks will be affected. California now has the highest number of people in that category, 220,000. Nevada, illinois, pennsylvania, connecticut, new york, new jersey, and massachusetts, also have much higher than average numbers of people out of work for that long. Jeff pegues tells us what the outlook is for those adjusting to this new unemployment reality. Reporter twoyearold sophia lowe knows how to make her parents mary and terry smile. The family hasnt had a lot to celebrate this year. Mary has been out of work for ten months, relying on a weekly unemployment benefit of 362 dollars. It ended
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