Thursday, December 26, 2013

Without Unemployment Extension, Which States Would Be Hit Hardest? - Real Time Economics - WSJ

 

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Jeffrey Sparshott

 

 

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Unemployed Americans will likely see jobless benefits shrink next year, a casualty of Washington’s budget battles and a slowly improving economy.

About 1.37 million people nationwide received emergency unemployment compensation at the end of November. That program, which provides an average of $300 a week in benefits to unemployed people once they exhaust their state benefits, is set to expire Dec. 28.

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