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Friday, March 20, 2015

Republicans Lead in Cutting Unemployment Benefits

A Lot Fewer Americans Get Unemployment Benefits Than You Think from the Huffington Post
"The share of unemployed Americans who receive unemployment insurance benefits has dwindled to its lowest point in decades, thanks in part to benefit cuts in Republican-led states. Just 23.1 percent of unemployed workers received state unemployment benefits at the end of 2014, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal Washington think tank. The rate has hovered beneath 24 percent since 2011 and bottomed out at 22.1 percent in November 2013."
The report is HERE.

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