[Extending unemployment benefits] is the only kind of stimulus that helps each and every unemployed worker, who in some sense has borne the pain of the recession.

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

In our view, welfare reform should not be pronounced a 'success' until the outcome among these -- the poorest families with children -- is one of consistent income gains rather than income stagnation or losses.

He was the kind of worker who went the extra mile.

The benefits are almost intangible but there's so much to it. It is almost an addiction in the sense that it fulfills so many aspects of being alive, being human. Kids benefit especially adolescents because they're so in touch with their emotions. But these kids are still malleable-they aren't so set that they can't break out of their shell.