Introduction

On July 21, 2010, Legislation was approved by Congress extending the long awaited eligibility deadlines for benefit extensions to November 28, 2010. Soon thereafter, President Barack Obama signed into law the extension recovery for two and a half million Americans who lost their jobs in the recession. In the land of the free and the home of the brave, it begs to question the partisan’s behavior toward an action that would restore confidence in the American political administration and appropriate funds to the American working class that would help infuse spending, stimulating the economic recovery and bolstering the Democratic platform of all for one and one for all. This topic is especially close to me because like so many Americans that lost their jobs due to no fault of their own, I was also left unemployed through no fault of my own, so I have a vested interest in the outcome of the decisions that our government made on our behalf. This social issue has opened my eyes to the importance of politics and how our votes really do count. It made me realize how significant political policies really impact certain groups of people in different ways and how masterful a party can be by injecting negative influences into the public’s psyche.
Review of Literature

A study conducted by Daniel Aronson, Bhashkar Mazumder, and Shani Schechter of the Chicago Federal Reserve points out that as we entered 2010, the average length of an ongoing spell of unemployment in the United States was more than 30 weeks. Remarkably, more than 4 percent of the labor force (that is, over 40 percent of those unemployed) were out of work for more than 26 weeks—we consider these workers to be long-term unemployed. In contrast, the last time unemployment reached 10 percent in the United States, in the early 1980s, the share of the labor force that was long-term unemployed