KEEPING AMERICA’S WOMEN MOVING FORWARD - The Key to an Economy Built to Last
Extending Unemployment Insurance for 1.9 Million Women in 2012. Unemployment
benefits provide income support for all members of the households in which recipients live. To
date, more than 19 million laid-off workers have received federal Unemployment Insurance
benefits, and more than 50 million workers and members of their households – roughly one in
six Americans – have benefitted from this support. By expanding these benefits, the
Administration was able to lift nearly 3.4 million people above the poverty line in 2010 alone.
This past winter, the President fought for and secured an extension of these benefits...
