Senate negotiators struck a bipartisan deal Thursday that would renew federal unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, allowing for retroactive payments to go to more than 2 million Americans whose benefits expired in late December.
Ten senators, evenly divided among Democrats and Republicans, announced the pact and set up a timeline in which the legislation could pass the Senate in late March.
Its outcome in the House remains up in the air, however. Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who has opposed previous Senate plans as insufficient in providing offsetting cuts, did not offer a statement on the new proposal.
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If they took the same amount of money and put it in to actual business based job creation, it would be multiplied in its effect...
I was laid off in '08. Please use my share of the money to give a tax incentive for an employer to open up in my area.
Thank you.
7:50 - that's what I'm talking about...
7:48
First, this isn't a done deal yet. Secondly, if you did not file for thse 2+months that there was no funding! you will get nothing. Some will get a windfall in the thousands, others will get nothing.
I am believing God in this situation. There are just too many of us that are going through, and we,'ve worked so hard for years. There's nothing left to do, but continue to pray. Please find it in your hearts to extend the unemployment. I would love to have a job above anything. On line honing is awful. I have plenty of experience, but I can't get one on line bite, is it .because I'm over 50?. We're not asking for anything that's not do us. Employers should have the courtesy to at least respond to receiving your applications. I'm sick of this online stupid process. Let us atleast get our retro back pay unemployment, so we won't loose everything we.'ve worked for. Please stop being so mean spirited, and vote to the extension.
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