When Unemployment Benefits Run Out
The average unemployed worker has been out of work for 35.2 weeks, and the number has been climbing steadily for over a year. Despite this crisis, last week, Congress went home without passing another emergency extension of unemployment benefits. This affects 1.2 million workers: they will no longer collect unemployment checks, but thereâs no evidence that losing their benefits will spur them to get a job any faster in a depressed economy.
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