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By Phyllis Korkki / The Bulletin
August 18, 2010
They’re known as the 99ers — laid-off people who have gone 99 weeks without finding work, at which point their jobless benefits expire. More than 1.4 million Americans have been unemployed for at least that long — victims of an economy that has not been creating many jobs.
Lawmakers are debating....
