Here’s the Vehicle for the Next Jobless Benefits Extension

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http://washingtonindependent.com/67450/heres-the-vehicle-for-the-next-jobless-benefits-extension

Here’s the Vehicle for the Next Jobless Benefits Extension
By Mike Lillis 11/11/09 2:45 PM


It’s no mystery that some Democrats are hoping to extend emergency unemployment benefits even further into next year — both to acknowledge a jobless rate that’s topped 10 percent, and to fix a filing deadline glitch that will prevent those in high-unemployment states from getting the full 20-week extension Congress recently promised them. The office of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday that the majority leader will likely get behind that push.

But it wasn’t clear how party leaders were planning to do it. The answer might have arrived today.

Reid this week told Senate Democrats that he plans to put together yet another jobs bill this year designed to curb those rising unemployment rates, according to The Hill. Citing Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the paper reports that Reid offered no specifics about the legislation, except that passage will be a priority before Congress adjourns for the year.

When that bill emerges, you can bet that an extension of unemployment benefits will be somewhere in the package.

[notadmblnd]

1. I don't want unemployment. I want a job

[babylonsister]

2. I posted this because my s-i-l is surviving because of unemployment.

I'm sure she's not alone.

[notadmblnd]

3. I know, so is my sister who got her last check in early October

which is really putting a strain on my meager income (she lives with me). I don't have a job either. We get by on my son's social security survivors benefits and a 600.00 pension that my husband left us. Our son was 10 when my husband died and my company was doing it quarterly separations. Working and being alone to raise a ten year old was too stressful, so I told my boss to fire me. He was a little hesitant (was worried about what his peers would think if he fired the recent widow) but he obliged. I never once thought then; that going back to work when our son was 16, would be a problem. I haven't worked in 5 years now, so I've fallen of the rolls and am not eligible for any unemployment benefits. I'm not complaining, I don't resent not being eligible for benefits. I also believe that these extended benefits are need and deserved.

However, I also think that job creation should be raised to the top of the list. Putting people back to work is the only thing that is going to reduce the governments deficit.

[babylonsister]

4. I'm also looking for a job; just started, but haven't worked in

quite awhile and am 53. My prospects don't look so great either. :(