Jobless Americans lose emergency benefits
More than a million unemployed stop receiving checks after Congress fails to renew benefit programme.
Published On 28 Dec 2013
More than a million jobless Americans have stopped receiving emergency benefit checks after a government programme expired.
They amount to almost a third of those who have been unemployed for more than six months and are the least likely to be hired.
Republicans have opposed providing the necessary $25bn to extend the emergency programme.
Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports from Washington, DC.
Source: Al Jazeera