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Federal Unemployment Benefits Will End If No Stop-Gap Measure Reached

If Congress doesn’t pass a stop gap measure that includes it, federal emergency unemployment compensation will end for thousands of jobless Alaskans on Monday. President Obama would like to see federal unemployment benefits as part of a stop-gap measure to avert the so called fiscal cliff.

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Joaqlin Estus is a reporter at KNBA in Anchorage.