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To: mishedlo who wrote (206465)	11/23/2002 5:51:02 AM
From: bruceleroy1_-	Read Replies (1) of 436258

ho ho ho. This will undoubtedly be spun as good news. Less "unemployed". November 23, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Uncle Sam has a lump of coal in store for 66,000 out-of-work New Yorkers - yanking away their jobless benefits three days after Christmas. The reason? House and Senate lawmakers couldn't agree on how to extend unemployment benefits and packed up to go home yesterday without a solution. Nationwide, more than 833,000 Americans will lose benefits on Dec. 28, and 90,000 jobless people are expected to be added to that list each additional week. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who brought Republicans aboard to pass a bipartisan bill in the Senate, blamed GOP House leaders for the impasse. "This year, it wasn't the Grinch who stole Christmas. It was the House Republican Leadership," Clinton said. Under regular rules, out-of-work Americans get unemployment benefits equaling roughly half of the person's previous weekly wage for 26 weeks. In a recession, when more people are out of work, Congress typically extends the benefits, and did so last March for 13 weeks.

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