Benefit exhaustion.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills

Congress voted in 2002 to give jobless workers an additional 13 weeks of unemployment compensation. Just before Christmas, the program ran out. "Congressional Republicans," explains The Washington Post's Kirsten Downey, "said another extension wouldn't be necessary because the economy was going to...

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