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The measure also renewed emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed through 2011
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Wrong.
The long-term unemployed got no help from the tax bill. People out of work for 99 weeks are receiving no Unemployment Benefits; and never probably will again, with a Republican House. This will put further strain on States, and will result in further layoffs due to those Unemployment checks no longer being immediately put back into the economy. There are almost 2 million "99ers' right now, and our numbers are growing by a half-million each month.
But you'd never know it from the way the media reports it.
Oh - and BTW - it helps the official Unemployment figures, too. Since we're not collecting any longer, we're no longer counted as "unemployed."
EDIT: ^^ That's why the Unemployment rate just "fell" from 9.4% to 9.0 %, even though less jobs were created last month than any month last year.