 ccrp poll extending unemployment benefits  new poll overview 1300000 million longterm unemployed americans will lose their unemployment insurance benefits on saturday december 28 2013 for the first time since 2008 congress failed to extend the benefits in the budget they approved before christmas additionally more than 4 million unemployed could lose benefits next year unless congress passes another extension in the past states have provided unemployed workers with up to 26 weeks of benefits with the federal government providing extra weeks of assistance federal and state governments have been providing 99 weeks of cash payments the average benefit is around 1100 a month extending the benefits for another year would cost the government 25 billion that it will have to borrow the cost of this will actually increase over time as the government pays interest on this debt more than 4 million americans looking for work have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks beyond the timeframe of traditional unemployment insurance new poll question should congress have renewed the additional extended unemployment coverage for the long term unemployed yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link should the legislature pass bill to double campaign contributions and allow committees to fund primary candidates   to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should the legislature pass a bill to allow phone companies to discontinue traditional land line phone services to customers yes 38 no 62 undecided 0 one comment was made on this poll question comment 1 discontined use of landlines and replace them with what cell phones currently there remains several parts of the state where cell phone reception is abhorid i would hate to have to rely on emergency services using a cell phone in these areas i don t see why landline service needs to be replaced as some internet services frontier being one still use the phone lines for there service i can see why aarp is against this bill i am 55 years old am computer savey yet am relunctant to use nor do i own a cell phone what is the service cost difference between landlines and its replacement   all emails addresses  