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Benefit exhaustion.


Congress voted in 2002 to give jobless job·less  
adj.
1. Having no job.

2. Of or relating to those who have no jobs.

n. (used with a pl. verb)
Unemployed people considered as a group. Used with the.
 workers an additional 13 weeks of unemployment compensation. Just before Christmas Christmas [Christ's Mass], in the Christian calendar, feast of the nativity of Jesus, celebrated in Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches on Dec. 25. In liturgical importance it ranks after Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany (Jan. 6). , the program ran out. "Congressional Republicans," explains The Washington Washington, town, England
Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area.
 Post's Kirsten Downey, "said another extension wouldn't be necessary because the economy was going to strengthen and job growth was near at hand." In January, a record-high 375,000 unemployed workers exhausted their benefits.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Date:Apr 1, 2004
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