Richard Blumenthal: “I view this hearing as tremendously and profoundly important.”

Long-term unemployment is devastating for someone’s financial security, future job opportunities, and overall wellbeing—and it can take a toll on our economy as well.

It fails to provide for adequate enforcement.

It’s illogical, illegal, intolerable — and that’s in effect what the court found.

There’s no excuse for this administration disobeying the law and withholding this funding.