Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Unemployment Benefits Set To Expire
KENTUCKY....
More than 21,000 Kentuckians are expected to lose their unemployment benefits this week after Congress failed to act Tuesday to extend emergency benefits. Officials with the state Office of Employment and Training say, within the next eight weeks, the number of Kentuckians affected by the benefit cut will surpass 75,000. It is the third time this year the nation's lawmakers let the emergency benefits expire, even though the nation's unemployment rate remains steady at 9.6 percent. In those cases, jobless workers got retroactive benefits once legislation was passed. Kentucky Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning oppose the benefit extension, saying the extra spending would increase the national deficit. Nationwide, the number of people slated to lose benefits is estimated at 2 million.
More than 21,000 Kentuckians are expected to lose their unemployment benefits this week after Congress failed to act Tuesday to extend emergency benefits. Officials with the state Office of Employment and Training say, within the next eight weeks, the number of Kentuckians affected by the benefit cut will surpass 75,000. It is the third time this year the nation's lawmakers let the emergency benefits expire, even though the nation's unemployment rate remains steady at 9.6 percent. In those cases, jobless workers got retroactive benefits once legislation was passed. Kentucky Republican Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning oppose the benefit extension, saying the extra spending would increase the national deficit. Nationwide, the number of people slated to lose benefits is estimated at 2 million.# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:57 PM 
