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Originally Posted by Joecooool
You do not understand the unemployment legislation.
The proposed compromise would do no such thing. It would preserve the 99 weeks by reauthorizing Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Extended Benefits programs, which together provide up to 73 weeks of benefits beyond the standard 26 funded by states.
Proposals to give the long-term unemployed in hardest-hit states an additional 20 weeks of benefits do exist, but those plans are going nowhere.
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Most of the morons over at the CF/PR&C adamantly believe Unemployment Benefits = Welfare
Is the concept of Employees and Employers paying into a Insurance System lost among the intellectually challenged?