The plan also extends unemployment insurance for another year. (Applause.) If the millions of unemployed Americans stopped getting this insurance, and stopped using that money for basic necessities, it would be a devastating blow to this economy.
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He implored Congress to extend the payroll tax cuts and ensure the access to unemployed citizens to unemployment insurance.
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Ruth had medical problems and was unemployed with no health insurance.
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If the millions of unemployed Americans stopped getting this insurance, and stopped using that money for basic necessities, it would be a devastating blow to this economy.
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Todashev was unemployed and had been living on insurance money after surgery for an accident.
Also missing from the bill was any extension of health insurance benefits for the unemployed.
Todashev was unemployed and had been living on insurance money he received after surgery for an accident.
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There is already a laundry list of exceptions including higher education expenses, health insurance premiums for the unemployed, and first-time home purchases.
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More than half of this would merely be to extend for an additional year two measures that expire in December: a 2% payroll tax cut and up to 99 weeks of insurance benefits for the unemployed.
Idea 2: There are some unhealthy, young people out there who are unemployed and too poor to buy health insurance.
Today, less than half of the unemployed in this country are receiving unemployment insurance, and that percentage is decreasing rapidly.
He would let the unemployed continue to collect benefits for up to 99 weeks, and wisely funnel some unemployment-insurance money into retraining and subsidies for hiring the long-term unemployed.
Secondly, there was a discussion about passing an extension of unemployment insurance for the long-term unemployed.
There will be another attempt to extend unemployment insurance to the long-term unemployed.
At its core, unemployment insurance pays individuals out of work to stay unemployed.
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It outlined a social agenda that called for, among others, insurance coverage and subsidies to aid the poor and unemployed during times of economic flux.
And they need to make sure, as long as the number of unemployed remains so high, that workers have the minimal income support that unemployment insurance can provide to keep their families going until they find that next job.
And now it deserves the same kind of up or down vote that was cast on welfare reform, that was cast on the Children's Health Insurance Program, that was used for COBRA health coverage for the unemployed, and, by the way, for both Bush tax cuts --- all of which had to pass Congress with nothing more than a simple majority.
Innovative entrepreneurship and wage insurance programs: States will also be empowered to implement wage insurance to help reemploy older workers and programs that make it easier for unemployed workers to start their own businesses.
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Extending unemployment insurance to 99 weeks reduces the incentive to search diligently for a job, enabling unemployed workers to be choosy.
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