USA TODAY: About 1.3 million unemployed Americans are set to lose their extended jobless benefits by the end of December if Congress doesn’t renew the program, delivering another blow to struggling households hit with recent cuts in food stamps.
Another 850,000 people would run out of unemployment insurance from January through March when their roughly 26 weeks of state benefits end, according to the National Employment Law Project.
“There’s a view … that it would be too heavy a blow both to the economy and to struggling unemployed families to have both food stamp benefits and unemployment benefits all (be cut) within two months of each other,” says Bob Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities… (more)
