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Casualty of Chaos: The Cost of Albany’s
Inaction on Jobless Benefit Increases
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July 2, 2009.
Albany
Inaction Costs Jobless New Yorkers $267
Million. A potent tool for fighting downturn, unemployment benefits deliver
economic stimulus where it's most needed.
But New York's
jobless benefit has been frozen
since 2000, and now lags behind dozens of states. This report from FPI and the
National Employment Law Project shows that upstate counties have been hurt
the most by the legislature's failure to increase unemployment benefits.
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