WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants Congress to extend emergency jobless benefits for long-term unemployed workers into 2014.
Obama economic adviser Gene Sperling says that without an extension more than 2 million long-term unemployed people stand to lose their benefits next year.
He says that with a 7.3 percent unemployment rate and with a labor market that has yet to get back to strength, many Americans can't find work.
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