Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 15, 2012. If the federally funded extended unemployment insurance benefits expire at the end of 2012, as they are currently scheduled to do, the economy will lose 400,000 jobs in 2013, a new EPI analysis finds. In Labor market will lose 400,000 jobs in 2013 if UI extensions expire, EPI President Lawrence Mishel and economist Heidi Shierholz finds that continuing the UI extensions through 2013 would not only give many of the five million workers who have been unemployed for more than six months critical assistance, it would generate spending that would support 400,000 jobs.
