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December 23, 2002
Unemployment Affects More Families with Children
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Long-term unemployment is spreading fastest in families with young children, according to a report from the Children's Defense Fund. Over a half-million parents experienced long-term unemployment (more than 26 weeks) in October - almost three times the number two years ago.
For parents with children younger than six, long-term unemployment more than tripled, accoridng to the report. These families increasingly need emergency unemployment insurance benefits that will expire December 28.
Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman expressed concern that Congress didn't pass continuing benefits before the holiday recess and after over one million jobless workers have already lost their benefits. President Bush recently announced his support of an extension of unemployment benefits.
"The President's words are welcome but families are already hurt. Instead of holiday greetings, hundreds of thousands of other struggling families will get the news that their unemployment benefits will expire," says Edelman. "Undoing this damage should be Congress' first act when it returns in January. President Bush must make it clear that he supports at least 13 weeks of extended benefits for all long-term unemployed workers."
Based on the report, not extending benefits hurts children disproportionately because long-term unemployment among their parents has risen so high, according to the authors of the study.
“A respected body of research documents that when families sustain income losses during their children's early years, children are more likely to perform poorly in school and to complete fewer years of education later on,” the organization says.
Qualified jobless workers generally receive a maximum 26 weeks of unemployment insurance from the states. In March, Congress created a 13-week extension in federal jobless benefits for workers who used up the maximum state-funded coverage. Since Congress did not pass an extension to that program, means that 780,000 new people will lose benefits three days after Christmas —a dding to the more than one million jobless workers who have already exhausted benefits — according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Each week after that, 96,000 people nationwide will lose their benefits.
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