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Carolyn Maloney: “These long-term unemployment numbers reaffirm the need for extending unemployment benefits, which Congress has passed…”

On the recordNovember 5, 2009
These long-term unemployment numbers reaffirm the need for extending unemployment benefits, which Congress has passed and the President will sign into law soon.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Maloney emphasizes the necessity of extending unemployment benefits due to long-term joblessness.

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