A Reminder That Millions Of Americans Face A Real Fiscal Cliff In Just 32 Days

dailykos.com — Republicans could give millions of Americans and the overall economy an early holiday Christmas gift by immediately taking one item off the table in the talks on the fiscal "cliff" and deficit: Renew extended unemployment benefits for another year. Immediately, as in: right now. Because, unlike other matters that are part of the fiscal artifice that is being called a precipice, if federal emergency unemployment benefits are not renewed before they expire on Dec. 29, it's going to take a big bite out of economy and have a major impact on millions of Americans who are just scraping by. As I've written here and here, if the emergency benefits do expire, two million Americans will immediately be cut off this lifeline and another million will follow in their footsteps by April. Plus, without renewal, an estimated two million who would have received federal emergency benefits in 2013 when their regular state benefits ran out won't get them

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