Sperling, the director of President Obama's National Economic Council, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Monday "is the day that 1.3 million Americans go to their mailbox and find that the check that they'd been relying on to put food on their table, put gas in their cars to look for a new job, will not be there."
Sperling urged Congress to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation for three months. The program expired in December, immediately ending benefits for 1.3 million of the 4.1 million Americans out of work for 27 weeks or longer and cutting off benefits for thousands of others expected to exhaust their 26 weeks of benefits in the weeks ahead.
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No problem... they'll just pay it from the Social Security fund and Medicare fund, like they usually do .
And no manned Mars mission in this century.
Democrats understand that everyone loves Santa Claus.
Show us how that works out mathematically.
Are these the same people who already had an extension of 99 weeks or has that group cycled out and this is a new group? I'm not being smart, I truly don't know. I have been a part-time employee for a little over two years after losing my full time job. I was actually out of work for 3 months in between the two jobs. I was looking for anything at that point and there were no full time jobs available so I took the part time job and have been there every since.
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