Significant Unemployment Benefits Victory, but What Comes Next?

by Kids Forward | July 22, 2010

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Thousands of Wisconsin families will sleep a little better after the Senate finally managed to approve a bill last night to extend unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for the long-term unemployed. The House approved the bill this afternoon and sent it to the President for his signature. Although passage of the bill is a huge relief for those families and will pump millions of dollars into communities across the state, the bill is also noteworthy for what it doesn’t include.

To read more about what the bill does and doesn’t do, see the Budget Project’s July 22 blog post.

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