As Arthur Delaney reports, CBO just came out with analysis that shows unemployment insurance kept an extra percent of the population out of poverty last year (which would work out to be around 3 million people). Extended unemployment insurance put in place to fight the recession prevented the poverty rate from rising to 15.4 percent [...]
Unemployment Insurance Keeps Middle Class Families Out of Poverty |
| By: emptywheel Wednesday November 17, 2010 1:15 pm |


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