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Time to make unemployment benefits a permanent entitlement?

By Mark Tapscott
Published January 9, 2014 5:00am ET
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Time to make unemployment benefits a permanent entitlement?
Audience members hold signs appealing for jobs as they attend a Democratic news conference about extending unemployment insurance benefits on Wednesday in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) | J. Scott Applewhite

How long is a temporary emergency in the nation’s capital? World War II lasted just under 45 months, from Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, to the Japanese surrender on Sept. 2, 1945.

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