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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fifth straight week to a new pandemic low, the latest evidence that the U.S. job market is regaining its health as the economy further reopens.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be some good news from Congress for the long-term unemployed, but there’s nothing signed off on yet. Bipartisan Senate bargainers ended a long-running election-season standoff and struck a compromise renewing expired jobless benefits for five months for more than 2 million Americans who have been out of work the longest, […]

This week, the Senate, or more specifically, Senate Republicans, had two opportunities to show that their wing of the legislative body had a heart as…

12/30/13- Roland Martin talks with Congressman James E. Clyburn about the issues surrounding long-term unemployment benefits and what needs to be done to keep them in place.

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WASHINGTON — The White House is stepping up efforts to extend jobless benefits to long-term unemployed Americans, arguing that more than a million people will…