{"id":583052,"date":"2010-05-28T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85953"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:48:01","slug":"pelosi-no-tier-v-for-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/583052","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi: No Tier V for Unemployment Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the enduring confusions amid the debate over extending unemployment benefits revolves around the fact that the Democrats&#8217; proposals don&#8217;t actually extend UI benefits at all. They simply<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77922\/unemployment-extension-does-not-create-additional-benefits\" > extend the filing deadline<\/a> to apply for existing benefits.<\/p>\n<p>That dynamic hasn&#8217;t been lost on a growing number of unemployed folks who have exhausted all available assistance, and many of them are pushing for additional tiers of emergency help. Yesterday, though, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) indicated that Tier V advocates shouldn&#8217;t hold their breath.<span id=\"more-85953\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Asked by a reporter if Democrats &#8220;foresee having another tier of expanded benefits,&#8221; Pelosi responded:<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Not \u2014 not \u2014 no.\u00a0 This bill will go into the end of November.\u00a0 At that time we will take up something, but not between now and then.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pelosi also noted that local politics are playing at least as much of a role as ideology in the debate over whether Congress should extend even existing benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The phenomenon or the situation that I see is that members who are from low-unemployment areas are very concerned about the deficit,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;Members who are from high-unemployment areas are very concerned about the jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the enduring confusions amid the debate over extending unemployment benefits revolves around the fact that the Democrats&#8217; proposals don&#8217;t actually extend UI benefits at all. They simply extend the filing deadline to apply for existing benefits. That dynamic hasn&#8217;t been lost on a growing number of unemployed folks who have exhausted all available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}