City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0235R

• File #: 10-0235R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for Federal Action - Unemployment Extension
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 12/6/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/6/2010
• Title: Request for Federal Action - Unemployment Extension FOR the purpose of urging Congress to take whatever steps are necessary to restore funding for federal extended unemployment benefits in order to avoid seriously endangering the economic recovery.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Carl Stokes, James B. Kraft, Warren Branch, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Edward Reisinger, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, President Young, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Robert Curran, Bill Henry
• Indexes: Resolution, Unemployment

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/6/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
12/6/2010	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
12/6/2010	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for Federal Action - Unemployment Extension

FOR the purpose of urging Congress to take whatever steps are necessary to restore funding for federal extended unemployment benefits in order to avoid seriously endangering the economic recovery.
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Recitals

Throughout the current economic downturn our City, State, and nation have been burdened with historically high levels of long term unemployment. According to the New York Times, even today as the economy slowly begins to improve, 42% of the 14.8 million jobless American workers have been unemployed for 6 months or longer.

As it has done during past severe downturns, Congress responded to this long term unemployment crisis by authorizing emergency federal funding for additional weeks of unemployment insurance payments to laid off workers beyond the 26 weeks of benefits provided in normal times. In Maryland, up to 73 weeks of benefits were made available.

These payments have proven to be a crucial lifeline to keep both struggling families and the economy as a whole afloat. According to government estimates, at least 3.3 million people would have fallen into poverty without these extended benefits. Had that been allowed to happen, many millions more would also have suffered as the effects of increased foreclosures, overburdened public services, ...