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What Is Unemployment Insurance?

Why Congress Must Extend These Benefits

Heather Boushey explains Unemployment Insurance and why its benefits are so important to millions of Americans.

What is unemployment insurance? How does unemployment insurance work? Why is it important for Congress to extend unemployment insurance right now?

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Heather Boushey

Former Senior Fellow

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