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Democratic Senator from Rhode Island Jack Reed heads to the Senate floor for a cloture vote on the extension of unemployment insurance, Jan. 6, 2014.

Only the first step for unemployment bill

Dems push for jobless benefits — PoliticsNation

Dems push for jobless benefits

U.S. President Barack Obama leaves the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Oct. 16, 2013.

Obama prepares to hit reset

Reed: Unemployed Americans want to work — Andrea Mitchell

Reed: Unemployed Americans want to work

Why the long-term unemployed are at risk — Andrea Mitchell

Why the long-term unemployed are at risk

People wait in line to meet with recruiters during a job fair in Melville, New York July 19, 2012. — Rachel Maddow

Showdown looms on unemployment benefits

Putting Americans back to work — Thomas Roberts

Putting Americans back to work

Phyllis Kennedy, who has been unemployed for over a year, at her home in Little Falls, New Jersey. — All In

When the unemployed stop caring

Job seekers speak to representatives of employers at a job fair at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan on March 6, 2013 in New York, N.Y. — Melissa Harris-Perry

Unemployment aid on deck

Rachel Maddow

Adding insult to the jobless' injury

This jobless woman has one word for Congress — msnbc Live

This jobless woman has one word for Congress

Renewed fight for unemployment benefits — msnbc Live

Renewed fight for unemployment benefits

An out of work couple eats lunch at the Central Park United Methodist Church which has a soup kitchen and food pantry on October 20, 2011 in Reading, Pennsylvania. — Rachel Maddow

Another self-inflicted wound

A short-term unemployment benefits extension? — Daily Rundown

A short-term unemployment benefits extension?

Fast Food Workers Organize Nat'l Walkout Over Low Wages — Melissa Harris-Perry

Can you defend not raising the minimum wage?

Job seekers attend the Choice Career Fair in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 7, 2013.

Poll: Extend unemployment benefits?

Potential job seekers speak with employers at a job fair in New York, New York, November 20, 2013.. — Rachel Maddow

Senate eyes 3-month extension for jobless

Occupy Seattle protesters cut up bank cards in from of a Chase bank in downtown Seattle, October 15, 2011.

Business Latest: Haunted by your credit score

en. Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks with the news media after delivering a speech titled, "Renewing the Opportunity for Prosperity: Economic Freedom Zones" at the Detroit Economic Club December 6, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. — Rachel Maddow

Paul: jobless aid 'weakens' U.S.

Rachel Maddow

A lump of coal for the unemployed

Budget plan - no cause for celebration? — Morning Joe

Budget plan - no cause for celebration?

Dems fight to extend unemployment benefits — Morning Joe

Dems fight to extend unemployment benefits

A cashier counts out money at Macy's Herald Square on Thanksgiving Day in New York, Nov. 28, 2013.

What the economy needs in 2014

A child watches as his mother at the West Side Campaign Against Hunger food pantry as she shops for food on July 24, 2013 in New York, N.Y. — Disrupt

Rolling Over the Kid Cliff

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke takes his seat for a news conference at the Federal Reserve Bank headquarters in Washington, Dec. 18, 2013. — All In

Fed rolling back stimulus

Feinstein: NSA program keeps us safe — Andrea Mitchell

Feinstein: NSA program keeps us safe

U.S. Air Force veteran Brittany Scott waits to talk to corporate recruiters at a job fair targeting unemployed military veterans in Washington, on June 11, 2013. — All In

No unemployment benefits, no Farm Bill

People talking with prospective employers during a job fair at a community center in New York, NY, August 15, 2012. — Rachel Maddow

Indifference to 'only' 300,000 jobs

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