Tagged: Emergency Unemployment Compensation

5:33pm

Mon December 3, 2012
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Unemployed workers to be pushed off their own 'fiscal cliff'

Credit thinkprogress.org

Up to 60,000 people in Washington will lose their unemployment benefits at the end of the month. That’s because a federal  program, called Emergency Unemployment Compensation, is set to expire.

The federal government has often been on the verge of cutting off extended unemployment benefits only to renew them at the last minute.  Since the recession hit, the U.S. Congress has voted 10 times to continue the extended benefits program.

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