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Emergency Unemployment Insurance program:\u00a0Since 1935, the government has provided laid-off workers with a percentage of their former salaries […]","datePublished":"2018-09-05","dateModified":"2018-10-17","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/author\/admin#Person","name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/author\/admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"UnemploymentOffice.org"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Using-Unconventional-Job-Hunting-Methods1-1.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Using-Unconventional-Job-Hunting-Methods1-1.jpg","height":365,"width":650},"url":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/blog\/id\/41\/end-of-emergency-unemployment-compensation-program-to-affect-13-million-americans","about":["blog"],"wordCount":456,"keywords":["41"],"articleBody":"On December 28th, 2013, approximately 1.3 million Americans lost the insurance they received through the\u00a0Emergency Unemployment Compensation\u00a0program when Congress Republicans declined to renew the program once more, saying it would save the economy $25.2 billion a year.Emergency Unemployment Insurance program:\u00a0Since 1935, the government has provided laid-off workers with a percentage of their former salaries for a fixed term to tide them over while they obtain a new job. This emergency measure was meant to keep the heads of unemployed Americans above water in the weeks between jobs, and was expanded in 2008 to help alleviate the effects of the recessionProgram Expansion:\u00a0In 2008, Congress expanded the Emergency Unemployment Insurance program in a couple of ways: they created the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program for additional aid after state benefits expired, and paid for the 13 or 20 weeks of extra benefits in states where unemployment was particularly high. Because of this, about two-thirds of states offered unemployment benefits for up to 63 weeks, with Nevada, Illinois, and Rhode Island extending it for 73 weeks.Expiry of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program:\u00a0The first impact of the program\u2019s expiry means that benefits will be cut off at the 36th week, with 1.3 million losing theirs immediately, and 4.9 million receiving less aid than when the extension was in place.\u00a0The Wall Street Journal\u00a0wrote an article detailing the states where workers will be hit the hardest: California, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, and New Jersey. The Washington Post offers up another sobering statistic: for ever job opening, there are 2.9 unemployed workers vying for it, a worse figure than at any time during the 2001 recession. But the worst news comes for the long-term unemployed (unemployed for 27 or more weeks), as employers look at their resumes the least.Consequences:\u00a0Unemployment is at a 70-year high with rates not seen since World War Two, and is affecting every demographic in the United States. The\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0reports that long-term unemployed workers have about a 12% chance of finding a new job within a month, with that number going down every successive week they\u2019re unemployed. Although this could be a coincidence, research conducted by\u00a0Rand Ghayad of Northeastern University\u00a0indicates the opposite: employers discriminate against job seekers who have been out of work for six months or longer, possibly because they think that there\u2019s something wrong with them. It\u2019s not a pretty situation, and there seems to be no indication it\u2019ll end anytime soon."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/blog\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Id","item":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/blog\/\/id\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"41","item":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/blog\/\/id\/\/41\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"End of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program to Affect 1.3 Million Americans","item":"https:\/\/www.unemploymentoffice.org\/blog\/id\/41\/end-of-emergency-unemployment-compensation-program-to-affect-13-million-americans#breadcrumbitem"}]}]