New Developments on the Extension of Federal Unemployment Benefits
16 January 2014
Lori Sanders, Outreach Manager and Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute, discusses the proposed legislation on the extension of unemployment benefits for millions of long-term unemployed and other legislative issues under consideration in Congress, including flood insurance and the farm bill.
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