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Monday, February 4, 2008

Senate Looks at Extension of Unemployment Benefits


For a bipartisan majority of senators, providing three months or six months of extra unemployment checks to more than 1 million jobless people is a better way to dig the economy out of a recession than just printing tax rebate checks. (USA Today, Monday)

Same old political game.

FEE Timely Classic
Unemployment Compensation by Hans F. Sennholz