House fails to extend unemployment benefits

Yesterday, on November 17th, the house failed to pass a bill that would have extended the jobless benefits for another three months. The last extension which lasted six months costed the government $34 billion, adding more to our deficit and also causing huge debate.

Both House and Senate Democrats have said they would have liked to extend the deadline by a year, but the House settled on three months in hopes that it would pass more easily.

I can understand that their are a lot of different opinions that causes debates. For the fact that millions of families are dealing with the hardships of not having a job, but also the fact that its digging a deeper hole for a our deficit which we are trying to dig ourselves out of. Its a hard call to decide wether we should help our nation in the long run or help our citizens in need now.