Schumer Promises Legislation To Help The 99ers
OPS_admin | Jul 28, 2010 | Comments 0
After Senate Democrats broke a 50-day filibuster and restored unemployment benefits to the long-term jobless, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed to do more.
“There are a number of people who have maxed out, they’ve been looking and looking for work and haven’t found it, and there is a separate act that would extend the unemployment benefits to them,” Schumer told New York’s WENY-TV. “Extending this was really important. There are some people who go beyond the 99 weeks and we’re going to try to do that next.”
Last year, Congress enacted several pieces of legislation that ultimately gave the unemployed in some states 99 weeks of benefits. With nearly 15 million unemployed competing for just three million jobs available, 99 weeks isn’t enough time for some people to find work. Hundreds of thousands had already joined the ranks of the “99ers” in April. The Washington Post reported recently that the total had reached 1.4 million.
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