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Despite a growing consensus that the Great Recession has ended, unemployment is expected to continue rising well into next year. That’s why it’s imperative that Congress move swiftly to approve another extension of unemployment benefits to help the millions of Americans who remain mired in economic misery. Last month, the House passed a bill to extend benefits for the more than 300,000 jobless people who are in Oregon and 17 other states with the nation’s highest jobless rates. In many of those states, benefits have run out. But in Oregon, up to 12,000 people will receive benefits until Jan. 2 under a state emergency measure signed into law this summer by Gov. Ted Kulongoski. Last Thursday, the Senate reached a tentative deal to extend unemployment benefits by 14 weeks in all states. That makes more sense than the narrower House version. Without a nationwide extension, 1.5 million Americans will have exhausted benefits by the end of the year, an unwelcome prospect for an economy just s
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary For release 10:00 a.m. (EDT) Friday, September 18, 2009 USDL-09-1126 Technical information: Employment: (202) 691-6559 * sminfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/sae Unemployment: (202) 691-6392 * lausinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/lau Media contact: (202) 691-5902 PressOffice@bls.gov REGIONAL AND STATE EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT — AUGUST 2009 Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in August. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia reported over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 16 states registered rate decreases, and 7 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics re-ported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The national unemployment rate rose to 9.7 per-cent in August, up 0.3 percentage point from July and 3.5 points from Au
