Bush Will Back Unemployment Benefits Extension

This is so hard. I spent all day wondering if I would be eligible but this is what I found on Pelosi's website. House Votes To Extend Unemployment Insurance Benefits

September 22nd, 2009 by Karina

Tonight, the House passed the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act (H.R. 3548) by a vote of 331-83. The legislation provides up to 13 additional weeks of unemployment benefits to workers in high unemployment states who are about to run out of benefits — helping at least 300,000 Americans who will exhaust all of their benefits by the end of September and over 1 million who will run out of unemployment by the end of December. This extension is targeted to states with particularly high unemployment (those with a three-month average total unemployment rate of 8.5% or a 13-week insured unemployment rate above 6%), where it is more difficult for people to find new jobs. Currently, that includes:

Alaska, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin, and West Virginia

It all sounds like double talk to me. So, so, tired.

Allen of NJ 6:16PM October 08, 2009

i was on my 3 emergency unemployment extention it ran out in july 2009 will there be anymore emergency unemployment for those who have had there 3rd emeregency unemployment ,if so how do i find out find out if i do apply .

mark of SC 9:13AM September 25, 2009

Congress needs to come back from their month long vacation, and find out that millions of out of work Americans have left phone messages, jammed their fax machines, sent tons of letters and millions of Email messages demanding a fourth unemployment benefit extension.

‘Then maybe they will wake up to the fact there are more people besides the Corporate CEO’s, banks and wall street that need help in this nation.

Which is where the biggest part of the trillions of dollars of stimulus money went to.

Until someone up on the Hill figures out how to create jobs in America we will keep on needing benefit extensions.

Of course we know even in this poor economy there would still be some jobs out there if the government would quit outsourcing them. And inviting workers from foreign countries to migrate here and take away the few jobs left for our citizens.

Plus they are taxing the business and piling on so many regulations that they are putting many of them out of business. And causing many to move out of the area.

So how does Congress expect Americans to get back to work, when they themselves are helping to create the problems.

Their creating Green Jobs and a few things here and there does not get mainstream America back working. Not when hundreds are standing in line for one job opening.

Carol of CA 7:51PM August 13, 2009

Dear Sadden of Fl,

How right you are.

They look out for the big boys and forget the average American.

The American workforce is the backbone of the economy.

They need to help jump start jobs and get people back to work then you will see the economy really pick up.

The Obama Administration is trying to say the worst part of the recession is over. And the economy is improving.

How can that be when every day we read about more layoffs and more business moving out of the area.?

I even read were the U.S. Postal Service is planning on closing thousands of post offices across the nation. And General Motors will close thousands of auto dealerships everywhere.

Till we get people back working again there will be no significant changes in the economy that I can see.

It has a ripple effect. People with jobs spend and that helps other businesses to survive. And then they in turn hire more people.

I hear talk of a 4th unemployment benefit extension maybe coming.

But Congress will not work on it till they come back from their August vacation. And even then there is talk that they are quibbling about money being spent on this because of the trillions of debt we are in.

So don’t hold your breath.

But till there are more jobs out there we need a 4th benefit extension to keep people from winding up under a bridge. In fact the way things are going they may even need a 5th one.

Carol of CA 7:24PM August 07, 2009