WSJ:Number of the Week: Millions Set to Lose Unemployment Benefits

5.5 million: Americans unemployed and not receiving benefits.

The job market may be on the mend, but that’s not much consolation to millions of Americans facing a frightening deadline: the end of their unemployment benefits.

Many Americans, though, are simply running out of time. As of March, about 14 million people were unemployed and looking for work, according to the household survey. At the time the survey was done, about 8.5 million were receiving some kind of unemployment payments, according to the Labor Department’s Employment and Training Administration. That leaves about 5.5 million people unemployed without benefits, up 1.4 million from a year earlier.

tiya wrote:Wow! If the Wall St. Journal is reporting this, it is going to get a lot of national attention.

Thank you WSJ!