House lawmakers have voted to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks to people in states where the unemployment rate is at least 8.5 percent.
That's about half the states. It affects about 300,000 workers whose benefits would otherwise run out this month.
The Senate is working on a similar bill.
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