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Senate set to vote on jobless benefits bill

Unemployed Americans await Senate vote aimed at reinstituting jobless benefits to millions living on savings and credit

Many unemployed Americans may be paying close attention to the bill set to go before the Senate on Tuesday, which is intended to provide jobless benefits through November to the nearly 1 million Americans who stopped receiving unemployment checks after the expiration of the June deadline.

Legislation to reinstitute jobless benefits to unemployed Americans has been rejected a number of times by the members of the Senate who think that the money to fund the extension should come from spending cuts so as not to add to the national deficit. Read the full post