Federal Unemployment Program Expires

by | December 1, 2010

Home 9 Family Economic Security 9 Federal Unemployment Program Expires ( Page 26 )

As of today, it’s official: The program that provides federal benefits to long-term unemployed workers has expired. There’s hope for the program to be revived, but until then, long-term unemployed workers are getting no further help making ends meet.

Read more about what this means for out-of-work Wisconsinites at the Wisconsin Budget Project’s newest blog post.

Kids Forward
Kids Forward

Join us to build a Wisconsin where every child and family thrives.

Recent

Weakening Assistance for Families Would Weaken the Workforce

The COVID pandemic and the recession it caused illustrated the tremendous importance of public benefit programs like BadgerCare, FoodShare, and Unemployment Insurance. Yet a number of Republican legislators are trying to hurriedly pass a package of bills that would...

Sign up for Emails

Your address helps us identify your legislators and the most relevant messages to send you.