Why Congress Must Extend Emergency Unemployment Benefits

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'If Congress does not extend emergencyunemployment compensation before the end of the
year, 1.3 million Americans will lose their benefits
just after Christmas, and another 1.9 million will
lose their benefits in the first six months of 2014.
Furthermore, allowing emergency unemployment
benefits to expire would constitute yet another self-
inflicted wound to the U.S. economy.'

Sarah Ayres, a policy analyst in
the Economic Policy Department
at the Center for American Progress

CAP

November 20, 2013

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