Connecting Unemployed Californians with New Federal Unemployment Benefits

(Sacramento) With Californias unemployment rate already above 10-percent the California State Assembly quickly approved legislation today that will connect long-term unemployed Californians with additional unemployment insurance benefits. Assemblymember Anna Caballero (D-Salinas) says Assembly Bill 3X 23will make laid-off Californians eligible for 20 weeks of additional federal unemployment insurance benefits. 100-percent of the benefits will be paid by federal dollars and not charged to employers' reserve accounts. Assemblymember Caballero says these benefits are real economic stimulus, helping unemployed Californians pay their rents and mortgages, feed their families, pay their bills, and keep contributing to their local economies. Heres more in this Assembly Access video.

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[Tonster1998]

hmmm. Congress is wasting billions on a continuing war. But will cut unemployment to people who can't find work. Please now it takes forever to fine a new job. In the old days it didn't take that long. Plus, U R a professsional and no one's going to hire u for retail or manual labor. U're overqualified. Plus, employers take their time in hiring new people now because they have their current employees putting in extra working time to full time