More than one percent of all Americans–3.3 million people–will have lost their unemployment benefits by month’s end if Congress doesn’t pass an extension of long-term benefits. The Labor Department estimates that about 1.7 million have lost benefits as of last week, after extended unemployment insurance expired in late May. Those numbers could reach 3.3 million [...]
One Percent of All Americans Will Have Lost Unemployment by Month’s End |
| By: emptywheel Friday July 9, 2010 6:53 am |


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