99 weeks isn’t long enough to find a job? this is a disgrace to the taxpayers. Any republican that supports an extension will lose my vote.
Again the people that got all of those extensions are already cut off. You had to have been laid off in 2008 to have gotten all of those extensions. If you have been laid off in the last 6 months your benefits are quickly running out.
BTW: The unemployment rate is a lot worse now then it was in 2008, and with Obama in power don’t look for things to get any better.
Don’t forget forced employer-paid COBRA (which is is now at 15 months). The govt subsidizes small businesses with a COBRA tax deduction, but that assumes the business has a profit to deduct from. If the company is losing money (and thus laying off workers) the deduction is worthless.
Yeah, let’s force ailing companies that are tottering on the edge of bankruptcy to give free medical care to ex-employees for 1.25 years.