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11. Extended

Reply to TheKentuckian (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 06:50 PM

Feb 2012

"Harry, Nancy, Barack, and I assume Kent should be smacked for not indexing benefits to the UI rate

rather than whatever lame game they were playing."

...benefits are already indexed to high unemployment. If the rate drops below a certain point, it ends.

The fact that this doesn't kick in until the end of the year is a loss for Republicans. It's after the election and at the end of the current Congress. The issue is now moot.

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So looks like the Dems caved to the GOP, cutting long term unemployment benefits [View all] quinnox Feb 2012 OP

link please uponit7771 Feb 2012 #1

link - quinnox Feb 2012 #4

How ProSense Feb 2012 #6

All deals are "caving." Robb Feb 2012 #7

It's ProSense Feb 2012 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author AtomicKitten Feb 2012 #2

Link? n/t FSogol Feb 2012 #3

Just because they have a (D) by their names does not mean they are Democrats. RC Feb 2012 #5

I need to start doing that, quoting myself with a link. Robb Feb 2012 #8

Harry, Nancy, Barack, and I assume Kent should be smacked for not indexing benefits to the UI rate TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #9

Extended ProSense Feb 2012 #11

In order to actually be indexed to the UI rate, it would also need to extend based on the rate TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #21

There's a new one every day, woo me with science Feb 2012 #10

How they propose to pay for it will just pit another group of people against each other. sad sally Feb 2012 #13

Kick woo me with science Feb 2012 #14

Is 73 weeks go past the next Presidential Inaguration? Rosco T. Feb 2012 #15

It's still well over a year... JSnuffy Feb 2012 #16

Kick. nt woo me with science Feb 2012 #17

Editorial: GOP caves on payroll tax cut ProSense Feb 2012 #18

When President Obama extended the Bush Tax Cuts for TWO additional years, bvar22 Feb 2012 #19

I'm lucky.....I have had a job the entire time we've had economic disaster hit the USA Sheepshank Feb 2012 #20