ALJAZAM News December 28, 2013
America. Im morgan radford, live from new york city. Emergency jobless benefits, a life line for the unemployed, is set to expire on saturday. 1. 3 Million People who have been out of work for a month will be cut off. The average recipient will lose out on 1,000 each and every month. The benefit program was introduced in 2008 at the height of the recession. Since then the payouts cost the government 20 billion. Extending it for a year will cost another 19 billion. Congress has not done that yet. More than a million unemployed will lose benefits because the Unemployment Program was allowed to e...