Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131228:13:34:00
Unemployment insurance. in fact, as congress has continued to scale them back repeatedly to shorter numbers of weeks, to less generous benefits. we are talking between 14 and 47 weeks in addition to the 26 weeks that states are getting. when the federal emergency unemployment kicks in. so i mean to frame it in that way is misleading. congress has taken the steps to scale back the program. the argument jared brought out is basically having this tale of two recoveries, you are having, it is becoming far far short term unemployed, if are you out of works work, whereas for the long term unemployed...