Sentence examples for benefit extension from inspiring English sources

The fate of the benefit extension now rests with the Republican-controlled House.

Ignoring facts and logic, several Republicans have said that any benefit extension must be paid for with spending cuts elsewhere.

The unemployment benefit extension would cost $8.5 billion this year, while the business tax cuts would amount to $43 billion this year.

Supporters estimate it would cost $178 million for a two-year benefit extension and have identified offsetting spending cuts to pay for it.

But while there is general consensus in Congress on a need to help people who have lost their jobs, there are serious divisions between the parties over how long the benefit extension should be.

It is also looking like a deal of some sort will be done to renew unemployment benefit extension to 99 weeks, which also terminates at the end of the year.

"Today's employment report is a marching order for Congress to pass unemployment benefit extensions to all states, quickly".

Federal benefit extensions, which supplemented state funds for payments up to 99 weeks, were intended to tide over the unemployed until the job market improved.

Failing to renew the federal benefit extensions will cause five million additional people to lose benefits next year, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said in an interview.

A study by the San Francisco Federal Reserve last year found that the benefit extensions had increased the rate by four-tenths of a percentage point.

A recent paper by Jesse Rothstein, an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, shows that benefit extensions in early 2011 raised the jobless rate by about 0.1 to 0.5 percentage points, but most of that was due to benefit recipients staying in the labor force and actively looking for work during the time they are collecting benefits, rather than, say, dropping out in despair.