From Bloomberg: Almost 2,400 people who received unemployment insurance in 2009 lived in households with annual incomes of $1 million or more, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The report was released after about 1.1 million people
exhausted their jobless benefits during the second quarter of 2012, when more
than 4.6 million filed initial unemployment claims. Eliminating those payments
to high earners is one idea being considered as U.S. lawmakers struggle to curb
a projected $1.1 trillion deficit for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, with
the nationwide jobless rate at 8.1 percent....
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