Number: RL34340
Title: Extending Unemployment Compensation Benefits During Recessions
Authors: Julie M. Whittaker, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: This report describes the history of temporary federal extensions to unemployment benefits from 1980 to the present. Additionally, information is included on economic recessions, changes in unemployment levels compared to the same month in the previous year, and the legislative timing of those additional federal unemployment compensation (UC) benefits during this period.
Pages: 23
Date: December 2, 2008