Number of Unemployed Who Have Gone Without Federal Benefits Hits Record 3 Million


 

Publication Date: October 2004

Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Isaac Shapiro

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Unemployment rate; Job displacement; Economic inequality; Federal budget

Type: Report

Abstract:

Since late December, when the federal Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program stopped providing additional aid to individuals exhausting their regular unemployment benefits, a record number of jobless workers have exhausted their regular benefits, gone without federal aid, and received neither a paycheck nor an unemployment check.