Sentence examples for insurance extension from inspiring English sources

Ms. Sadler eagerly tuned in to C-Span last Monday, mistakenly believing that Senate Democrats returning from recess would quickly take up the unemployment insurance extension.

Indeed, the additional fiscal stimulus passed in the lame-duck session — particularly the payroll tax cut and the unemployment insurance extension — is the right policy for now.

The tax cut and unemployment insurance extension approved by Congress on Friday included a Republican provision that requires President Obama to make a decision on the pipeline within 60 days.

The unemployment insurance extension — a temporary measure passed in the 2008 stimulus package and extended for another year last December — grants additional weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless workers.

In the United States, where the Senate passed an unemployment insurance extension last month only after a long battle, the debate over how to treat persistent joblessness has mounted as well.

Democrats have been putting increasing pressure on Republicans in the House to decouple their demand for tax cuts from the unemployment insurance extension, saying that hundreds of thousands of people a month are exhausting their unemployment benefits before they can find a new job.

Unemployment insurance extensions add to the marginal tax rate, and subtract from the reward to work, because they provide income to people when they do not work.

Both Rothstein (2011) and Farber and Valletta (2013) find that the unemployment insurance extensions reduced exits from unemployment but that this was largely due to reductions in exits from the labor force rather than a decrease in exits to employment.

After all, blocking unemployment insurance extensions for Americans out of work is pretty darn low.

"When Congress allowed federal unemployment insurance extensions to end in March of 1985, albeit when the official unemployment rate was 7.2percentthethe key employment indicators had all recovered to their pre-recession levels at least a year earlier," Hirsch said.

She cited crop insurance, better extension services and modern irrigation technology by way of example.