Congress Picked An Historically Bad Time To Kill Unemployment Benefits
"The current U.S. Congress just keeps racking up the superlatives:
Not only is it the worst Congress in history, it is also the cruelest
Congress to unemployed people in many decades.
Congress decided in its infinite wisdom to let emergency unemployment
benefits end late last year for more than 1 million Americans suffering
from long-term unemployment. Congress did this at a time when the
long-term unemployment rate -- meaning the percentage of the U.S. labor
force out of work for six months or more -- was more than 2.5 percent.
Never in any recession since at least 1957 has Congress let such
emergency benefits expire when long-term unemployment was so high, the
Economic Policy Institute pointed out on Wednesday."
''I'm tired of being crushed under the weight of greedy men, who believe in nothing.''
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