Senate Passes Unemployment Benefits Extension Bill, House Republicans Continue to Stall

Source: The Brooklyn Reader

The U.S. Senate finally passed a bill that would extend long-term unemployment insurance benefits on Monday, but the House of Representatives continue to find fault in the measure and are less eager to do the same.

House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, is calling the bill “unworkable,” because it fails to create jobs (although a jobs creation bill has very little to do with a decision on whether to extend insurance benefits).

Boehner also says the bill cannot work because individual state governments will have trouble finding the 2 million people who’ve missed out on the benefits since they lapsed in December.

The Congressional Budget Office has said repeatedly that emergency unemployment benefits boost jobs because claimants plow their benefits directly into necessities such as food and shelter.

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