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An estimated 67,000 Coloradans will lose unemployment insurance in the next three months if Congress does not extend the benefit, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
In the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Republicans and one Democrat filibustered a bill to extend unemployment subsidies for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have exhausted their jobless benefits. Republicans said they were concerned about the bill’s effect on the federal deficit.
About 97,000 Coloradans are receiving unemployment benefits now, said state labor department spokesman Bill Thoennes. Most of those will lose those benefits by the end of the year if the bill isn’t passed, he said.
