Human Services News

From Economic Policy Institute:

On Thursday, the Senate passed, by a veto-proof margin, an amendment to the war supplemental appropriations bill that included emergency extensions to unemployment insurance.

The provision extends unemployment benefits by 13 weeks for all workers nationwide (and an additional 13 weeks for workers in high-unemployment states), and would help ease an enormous strain for more than 4 million jobless workers and their families who are most hurt by the economic downturn.

The measure now returns to the House of Representatives, where it must also pass by a two-thirds margin to override a threatened presidential veto. Read about it in EPI's latest Policy Memo.

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