Does NJ have a 2nd unemployment extention?
nj girl here. i recieved my last check today and nowhere on the website has information about it. What are we suppoe to do. No jobs in nj. I found this out though. Congress moves to extend unemployment benefits By Kiera McCaffrey Posted: 08/13/09 07:56 AM [ET] The Senate and House are both moving to extend costly unemployment insurance benefits included in the $787 billion economic stimulus package amid fears about a jobless recovery and growing fiscal deficits. The nation’s unemployment rate stands at 9.4 percent and actually dipped one-tenth of a point in July, but is widely expected to increase in coming months. Unemployment hasn’t been this high in a quarter-century, and a record number of workers have been unemployed for an extended period of more than 27 weeks. Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed (D), whose state has a 12.4 percent unemployment rate that trails only Michigan, introduced legislation Friday to extend enhanced unemployment benefits through the end of 2010. The benefits were