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Unemployment insurance was meant to be a bridge for temporary spells of unemployment. The bad news is all the evidence is that the longer…

— Harry Reid

Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important…

— Sander Levin

“USA unemployment numbers are fraudulent because they do not count the long term unemployed or the disabled!”

— Steven Magee

“Unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed in the USA!”

— Steven Magee

This Congress needs to restore the unemployment insurance you just let expire for 1.6 million people.

— Barack Obama

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of…

— Paul Krugman

It's time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families. It's time…

— Tom Perez

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

— Michael Foot

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's…

— John Mellencamp

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A week of…

— Janet Yellen

With unemployment benefits, you don't get health care. You don't build your pension up. You don't build all of those programs that you need…

— Marty Walsh

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

— Ellen Wilkinson