Posted on 12/29/2013 12:07:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
If lawmakers decide next month to end a high-stakes impasse over extending long-term unemployment insurance benefits that expired Saturday, an estimated 1.3 million jobless Americans may receive compensation for three additional months or longer.
However, in allowing the federal benefits to lapse this weekend -- after extending the support 11 times since the recession of 2008 -- Congress may have severed help to nearly 5 million people by the end of 2014, according to the Obama administration.
The battle has become the starter’s pistol of the midterm election year, pitting Democrats’ belief that the benefits are necessary and help buoy a still-wobbly economy, against Republican arguments that growth and hiring would gain strength more quickly if Washington keeps its spigot turned off and leaves unemployment compensation to the states.
Recent polling suggests Democrats have the stronger argument with the public across regions, genders and age groups. A majority of voters say they want Congress and the president to maintain the benefits, according to a survey of 811 registered voters conducted Dec. 18-22 by Hart Research Associates. The poll found that 55 percent of voters think the federal emergency program should continue, while 34 percent say benefits should cease.
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And here you are again with the copy/paste-a, on queue.
Again, genius, bring back jobs to what/where?
The state(s) and federal government have created climates that are about robbing the business of capital for the use of government re-distribution as government see’s fit.
Question for you. Do you own business/company? I’m being serious here. Do YOU employ anyone (and no, I’m not talking about a house cleaner or landscaping service, etc..)? Do YOU yourself have to make payroll?
Five years wasted playing with Obamacare when it’s jobs that matter most. Obama and the Democrats have done nothing to help job availability.
What makes you think the people in the picture ARE Americans?
Why have the stupidly stupid Republicans missed this most obvious angle?!
A very astute analysis.
RE: I was laid off last year for a couple months and for the first time in my life, applied for un-employment.
I gather from your screen name that you are a UNIX sort of fella... that makes you quite employable :)
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