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                        A federal program to provide jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed has expired, and efforts to renew it are deadlocked in the Senate. But a shift…
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                        The end of 2013 also marks the end of benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed Americans.Checks from the federal government providing aid to those…
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                        A two year, roughly $1 trillion federal spending plan is in the hands of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. But, the bipartisanship deal that…