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- <text id=91TT2620>
- <title>
- Nov. 25, 1991: Business Notes:Unemployment
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 25, 1991 10 Ways to Cure The Health Care Mess
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 70
- Business Notes
- UNEMPLOYMENT
- A Bit More Cushion
- </hdr><body>
- <p> After two failed swings at trying to extend jobless benefits
- for nearly 3 million U.S. workers, Congress and President Bush
- finally agreed last week on a $5.3 billion compromise package
- that could give some of the unemployed new checks by
- Thanksgiving. The agreement would allow workers to collect up
- to 20 weeks of extra checks after they have used up their
- initial 26 weeks of benefits. The duration of the additional
- benefits will depend mostly on individual states' jobless rates,
- with recipients in the more severely affected regions getting
- payments longer. The measure will be financed largely by
- speeding up collection of estimated taxes from some wealthy
- taxpayers. That self-financing feature persuaded Bush to support
- the bill; he had vetoed two previous attempts because they did
- not maintain "budget discipline."
- </p>
- <p> After the Senate passed the measure, it immediately
- approved a supplemental plan, estimated to cost an additional
- $400 million, to make benefits even better for workers in some
- states. The second bill, which Senate leaders believe will be
- enacted this week, is designed to satisfy Senators who feel
- their states were shortchanged in the other formula.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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