- 2.3 million children have a long-term jobless parent, By Jennifer Liberto, January 14, 2014, CNNMoney: “More than 2.3 million children currently live with a long-term unemployed parent. That’s three times more than in 2007, according to research by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. The report comes as Congress considers whether to extend recession-era jobless benefits. Federal unemployment benefits ended on Dec. 28, cutting off 1.3 million workers, many of whom are parents…”
- Unemployment benefits won’t be extended until at least late January as Senate deadlocks, By Paul Kane, January 14, 2014, Washington Post: “Negotiations to extend emergency benefits for the long-term jobless deadlocked in the Senate on Tuesday. That leaves more than 1.3 million people without federal unemployment aid at least until late January, when lawmakers are likely to resume consideration of the legislation. Democrats and Republicans accused each other of bad-faith negotiations, and by late Tuesday they had rejected each other’s latest proposal. After parliamentary votes to advance the legislation failed, senators moved on to debating the bill to fund government agencies through 2014. Congress leaves town Friday for a weeklong recess and will return Jan. 27, the earliest that new talks could provide a breakthrough on an unemployment plan…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty