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1.2 million jobless workers will become ineligible for federal unemployment benefits in March unless Congress extends the unemployment safety net programs from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). By June, this number will swell to nearly 5 million unemployed workers nationally who will be left without any jobless benefits.
Originally posted by LadySkadi
They'll extend it. They always do. Like clockwork. State and Federal level
Many (most?) of these people should have been allowed to use that money towards education and training. Perhaps they wouldn't now be unemployed...
Originally posted by murfdog
reply to post by brill
So… if the way the Gov. counts unemployed people is based on the amount of people receiving unemployment benefits and are actively seeking work. Than by removing five million from the count should bring the unemployment rate down substantially. Isn’t that how we went from 10% to 9.7% unemployment last month?
Just a little food for thought.
Family Housing -19.6%
Unemployment insurance -47.2%
Income tax credit -4.6%
Child Tax credit -0.4%
Child support and family support -25.2%
Low Income Energy Assistance -35.3%
Other Nutrition Programs -48.6%
Home Investment Partnership Program -9.6%
Public Housing Capital Fund -18.2%
Low Income Housing Tax Credit -61.9%
Grants to states for Medicaid -11.2% (when states are bankrupt...)
Children Health Insurance -0.2%
Health Care tax credit -29.5%
Other farm credit activities -48.2% (gotta kill those small farms!)
Federal housing loan program -36.7%
Small and minority business assistance -8.7%
Originally posted by Mountainmeg
They'll extend. Just look up "Cloward Piven strategy". Extending benefits and getting more people on the dole is a researched strategy to bring down the US.