Unemployment Extension : July 20, 2010 Senate Vote – Great news for the 2.5 million Americans who have been waiting for help, earlier today the U.S. Senate has finally taken a decisive step towards extending long-term unemployment aid to those who need it.
By a vote of 60-40 the Senate has approved to move forward with reauthorizing unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless but there is still a lot of work to be done.
Since end of May a majority of Republicans and few conservative Democrats have been able to kill bills that were intended to renew the aid.
After a final Senate vote, which should go through easily the bill will be sent to the House, which will vote on it on Wednesday and it should land on the president’s desk by the end of week.
Nearly half of the 15 million unemployed in the United States have been jobless for over six months, a record in terms of long-term unemployment since the establishment of statistics on employment had been created in the 1940s. Nearly one quarter of the unemployed have not worked for over a year.
Another positive news for those without work is that people who missed out on unemployment checks will be paid retroactively.
But on the other hand Americans who exhausted all weeks of benefits available before the lapse will not get any money.
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