Going Backwards: Just Let Us Keep the 99 Weeks!

A few months ago, the biggest fight for the long-term unemployed was focused on attempts to get more than 99 weeks of unemployment compensation during this miserable "Jobless Recovery".  


Getting the 99 weeks reauthorized was daunting throughout all of 2010, with several gaps in coverage while the Democratic-led Congress tried to hammer out agreements with the Republicans.  Finally, however, a bill was passed guaranteeing 99 weeks of coverage through the calendar year of 2011. 


And now things have switched gears and we are going backwards.