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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Extend unemployment insurance
This week an additional 516,000 people filed for unemployment benefits, a 16 year record. On the other end, 890,000 unemployed workers are expected to exhaust their benefits at the end of this month, according to the Economic Policy Institute.