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Dems and GOP Still Far Apart on Extending Unemployment Insurance

December 1, 2011 - by Donny Shaw

With the new year quickly approaching, the single most important thing for Congress to do (besides keep the government funded) is to reauthorize the federal extension of unemployment insurance. If they don't, more than 2 million unemployed people will lose their benefits by mid-February and the drag on demand for goods and services would hit the economy quickly and could send us back into a recession.

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