The US Senate voted to extend emergency unemployment benefits for three months, retroactive to the end of the December, but the House has not taken up the bill yet. South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson says despite the low unemployment in the state, those extended benefits are still important…
Johnson says the loss of the extended benefits will have a negative effect on the economy…
Johnson says he supports extending the benefits for another three months…
The extension comes on top of up to ninety nine months of benefits for some long term unemployed.