12.12.11 - Speaking With Job Seekers Before Heading Back TO DC
Hours before leaving for Capitol Hill, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-8) visited the Passaic County Workforce Development Center to speak with job seekers and reiterate the message that no Congress members should return home without extending unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and this year's payroll tax cut.As Congress resumes it business this week, a number of provisions benefitting job seekers and the middle class, including unemployment insurance, are due to expire by the end of the month. Failure to extend UI benefits would affect 60,000 people statewide by the end of January, and up to 100,000 people by the middle of 2012.
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