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Glenn Beck Blasts 99er Movement

(Aug. 19) -- Glenn Beck probably won't be joining a 99er protest anytime soon. On Monday, the Fox News television commentator lambasted the 99er movement -- composed of the 1.4 million long-term unemployed Americans who have exhausted the full 99 weeks of emergency federal unemployment aid -- for not seeking out work and...

Stabenow Introduces Legislation to Aid 99ers

(Aug. 5) -- Two weeks after Congress surmounted a 50-day Republican filibuster to pass an unemployment benefits extension, the cause of the 99ers -- a group of 1.4 million unemployed Americans that the legislation did not cover -- has been taken up on Capital Hill. On Wednesday evening, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.,...

Senate Passes Unemployment Extension; Obama Could Sign by Thursday

(July 21) -- After one last round of debate, the Senate on Wednesday passed an unemployment extension that restores benefits to jobless workers who'd had their checks cut off in June and keeps them flowing through the end of November for qualifying recipients. The House will give its approval to the measure as early as...

Unemployment Extension Passes: What's Next for '99ers'?

UPDATED (July 21) -- After a final counter-push from the Republican opposition, the Senate tonight cast a party-line vote to pass a bill that will restore unemployment payments to those who have been without aid since their benefits expired in June. The measure also provides an unemployment extension to qualifying job...

2010 Unemployment Extension FAQ: Tier 5, 99ers Explained and Defined

(July 15) -- America's officially been out of the recession since last October, but you wouldn't know it from looking at the nation's jobless numbers. In fact, the number of Americans without work for the past 99 weeks recently reached an alarming, record-high 1.4 million, according to the Department of Labor (via The...

Background on 99ers

99ers is a colloquial term for unemployed people in the United States, mostly citizens, who have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, including all unemployment extensions.

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