It affects millions of americans nearly 11 million, in fact, do not have a job. 4 million have been unemployed for more than six months. Many are at risk of falling into poverty. As of today 1. 3 million americans lost longterm Unemployment Benefits. On average each person got a little more than 1,000 a month. The benefits began at the height of the recession, costing 225 billion for the federal government. Congress renewed the payouts until this year. Congress said the economy means it needs to be cut. Theres a lot of ideas part of the president s budget, different budgets, but there seems to be a gridlock in congress, and an unwillingness to take it on. In america we dont look at problems like this as too big and we cant forget the unemployed because its a hard problem to sold. We turn to jennifer london, live in honolulu where the president is vacationing. What kind of behind the scenes work is the president doing trying to extend the benefits . Well, long before the president began
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. We begin with breaking news out of russia where a suicide bomb attack killed at least 15 people. 27 others are injured. The blast saw through a train vasion in a Southern City of volgergrad. These are the latest pictures. A female suicide bomber detonated the explosives as she walked through the metal detectors. Theres no claim of responsibility for the attack. Russia has bund a height end state of alert ahead of winter games in february. Well have a live report in a few moments. Israel has fired a barrage of artillery shells across the border into lebanon after rockets from fired from lebanon were fired into israel. No one was injured. Tensions on the border are high after an israeli soldier killed a lebanon soldier earlier. The new report by the New York Times is that the benghazi bombing was not at the handof al qaeda. Since the attack some republicans argued not only that al qaeda was behind it but Obama Administration
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