Oh, also, as to the ‘aid to the jobless’ part. Numerous studies have shown that after a few weeks, unemployment compensation actually INCREASES unemployment rather than helps reduce it. If people can they will extend painful decisions like going back to school, moving, or taking jobs with lower pay. As such, they dont move on and become more and more unemployable as time passes and they delay the pain.
Those senators voted to stop giving more than 2 years of unemployment. 2 years. At some point we need to admit that they need to make some kinda change.