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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - December 10, 2009
Congress Urged to Extend Emergency Jobless Benefits
by: David Goldstein
McClatchy Newspapers
Washington - State labor officials on Monday urged
Congress to renew emergency jobless benefits that have
been available through economic stimulus funds, but are
due to expire this month.
One million workers could lose their benefits in January
without the extension, according to a new report on the
stimulus act unemployment benefits, written by several
labor advocacy groups.
"This is a lifeline," said Jim Garner, the secretary of the
Kansas Department of Labor.
Garner was one of eight state labor officials who appeared
at a news conference alongside labor advocates. Though last
week's economic report showed hopeful signs, "We are facing
a real catastrophe," said Christine Owens, the executive
director of the National Employment Law Project, one of the
co-authors of the report.
Backers of renewing the stimulus act unemployment assist-
ance said it helped families pay for mortgages and other
bills and kept money circulating into the economy.
"We stop now, we risk stalling the nascent recovery," said
Heather Boushey, an economist with the Center for American
Progress, a liberal policy organization and a co-author of
the report.
The unemployment rate dropped slightly last week, to
10 percent, but more than 15 million people remain out of
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Basic unemployment insurance provides up to 26 weeks of
benefits at an average rate of about $284 a week.
The stimulus added as much as a year's worth of extended
aid, depending upon a state's unemployment rate. It also
provided an additional $25 boost in weekly assistance, a
health insurance subsidy and a break on fed eral income
taxes. Renewing the programs would cost about $100 billion.
State labor officials and others said they're hopeful that
Congress will act. Though the Senate is bogged down on
health care, Congress still must pass an omnibus spending
bill to fund the government, which could provide a vehicle
for the extended benefits renewal, they said.
Without the extension, nearly 20,000 jobless workers in
Missouri, for instance, whose basic unemployment benefits
run out this month, would enter 2010 without extended
assistance, according to the report.
Kansas, however, would be one of a dozen states forced to
dip into their coffers to maintain some extended benefits.
That's because they signed onto an optional federal
program, separate from the stimulus act, for states with
high unemployment where the federal and state governments
equally shared the costs of extending unemployment benefits.
Under the stimulus program, though, the federal government
paid the entire cost. If that money is no longer available,
Kansas would still be obligated to pay its share.
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Workers exhausting regular state benefits
State ................ No. of workers
Alabama .............. 15,539
Alaska ............... 0
Arizona .............. 38,417
Arkansas ............. 12,213
California ........... 233,464
Colorado ............. 25,308
Connecticut .......... 0
Delaware ............. 3,928
District of Columbia . 5,794
Florida .............. 117,324
Georgia .............. 52,618
Hawaii ............... 5,125
Idaho ................ 7,563
Illinois ............. 66,217
Indiana .............. 39,685
Iowa ................. 10,716
Kansas ............... 0
Kentucky ............. 13,252
Louisiana ............ 13,330
Maine ................ 4,119
Maryland ............. 18,600
Massachusetts ........ 40,819
Michigan ............. 49,331
Minnesota ............ 0
Mississippi .......... 9,518
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Missouri ............. 19,620
Montana .............. 2,591
Nebraska ............. 6,732
Nevada ............... 0
New Hampshire ........ 0
New Jersey ........... 0
New Mexico ........... 0
New York ............. 87,093
North Carolina ....... 0
North Dakota ......... 1,416
Ohio ................. 40,371
Oklahoma ............. 11,257
Oregon ............... 0
Pennsylvania ......... 0
Rhode Island ......... 0
South Carolina ....... 27,223
South Dakota ......... 541
Tennessee ............ 28,115
Texas ................ 86,640
Utah ................. 9,402
Vermont .............. 0
Virginia ............. 24,195
Washington ........... 0
West Virginia ........ 4,289
Wisconsin ............ 29,319
Wyoming .............. 2,645
United States ........ 1,164,330
States with "0" workers listed in the table above have
the Extended Benefits program in place, which is funded
50 percent by the states after the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act expires.
Source: National Employment Law Project
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