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Improving job market complicates push to renew unemployment benefits
Democrats, and even some Republicans, are going to try to extend emergency unemployment benefits during the lame-duck session in November and in the 114th Congress that starts in January. But with long-term unemployment falling rapidly, it may be too late. Congress allowed emergency benefits for workers unemployed for longer than 26 weeks to expire in December, despite Democrats’ efforts to extend the program for another year. Reinstating benefits was at the top of the agenda for the Obama administration and the Democratic Senate through the early part of the year…Read More
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