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June 25, 2010

Senate Republicans Block Unemployment Benefits Bill
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Senate Republicans have blocked another effort to extend unemployment
benefits to millions of jobless workers. Emergency jobless benefits,
which provide up to ninety-nine weeks of income support, expired June 2.
More than 1.2 million people have already had their checks cut off, but
that total is expected soon to rise to two million people.



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