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Executive Orders and Unemployment Insurance Benefits

June 25, 2010 - by Donny Shaw

With the Senate's failure yesterday to extend unemployment benefits for the millions of Americans who have lost their job due to the financial crisis and are facing an extremely dire jobs situation, people are asking if President Obama can step in and use his executive power to do something. The short answer is no. Here's why.

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