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President Obama signs six-month extension of emergency unemployment benefits
Date: 2010-07-23T05:52:35.267
Author: AAA Staff
Editor note: President Obama signed a six-month extension of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed on Thursday, restoring aid to nearly 3 million people whose checks have been cut off since the program expired in early June.
The White House signing ceremony came barely three hours after the House approved the $34 billion measure on a vote of 272 to 152. The Senate passed the measure Wednesday after a months-long stalemate. President Obama signs six-month extension of emergency unemploym
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