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By Patrick Rizzo, msnbc.com, senior editor

At the top of the action list for the lame duck Congress should extend to two million Americans unemployment benefits that are based on payments for cross until they find a job.

The recent speech is that lawmakers would be willing to extend the benefits for the fifth time this year before their expiry 30 supporters novembre.Les additional benefits include groups representing the so-called 99ers, running benefits after 99 weeks.

But the Republicans, which triggered Democrats partly on mid-term elections the idea that America was too spent, say that the deficit is already too big and that benefits even unemployed should be on the table for discussion.

The debate that deletes a number of echoes, which said that us Wednesday received benefits totalling 319 billion in the last three années.Article CNNMoney, the Federal Government has already paid to 109 billion unemployment said that.

Companies are likely to pay for much of the rest, including what should be added that if Congress agrees to extend the benefits, CNNMoney said.

High unemployment rate, currently at 9.6% officially, forced States that generally Fund for unemployment benefits, to ask the Federal Government for aider.Les States are in the Straits of say: 31 of them were now 41 billion in loans outstanding according CNNMoney.

With the employers on the hook to reconstruct the unemployment fund money, taxes on businesses should rise to 64 billion in 2015 from $ 38 billion last year, according to the Ministry of labour.

With this kind of money on the line, companies large and small will be probably be strong allies to legislators who want to either to stop expanding benefits or find cost elsewhere to make up the difference.

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