Nearly two million American families rely on unemployment assistance to pay for essential services while they look for work.

A Congressional budget rule requires that the cost of extending the unemployment assistance be offset by either tax increases or spending cuts.

They passed bills dealing with unemployment assistance and they created an open primary law.

Many of the long term unemployed became ineligible to receive unemployment assistance.

He clearly favors economies providing extensive systems of social security, education and job training, unemployment assistance and cultural enrichment.

At a time of budget austerity, unemployment assistance is being strengthened and made more systematic in both countries.

Equally troubling, analysts said, was a 62,000 rise in the number of people receiving unemployment assistance under state programs, to 2.89 million.

They may also get unemployment assistance and crisis counseling.

The bill would extend unemployment assistance and encourage companies to invest more in factories and equipment.

And they require less unemployment assistance and other social insurance.