Recession outlasts even extended unemployment benefits

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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON – In the coming weeks and months, hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment benefits, just when it's never been harder to find a job.

Congress extended unemployment aid twice last year, allowing people to draw a total of up to 59 weeks of benefits. Now, as the recession drags on, a rolling wave of people who were laid off early last year will lose them.

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I'd think it would be nice if our current president would throw a little more cash around here and delay some of the foreign aid budget.