Illinois County-By-County Breakdown Shows the Harm of Not Extending Unemployment Insurance
If Congress fails to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program almost 82,000 people in Illinois will lose their insurance coverage immediately on Dec. 28, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. An additional 89,100 people in Illinois will lose their coverage in the first six months of 2014 if Republicans continue to block an extension of the program, according to Department of Labor estimates.
Federal unemployment insurance took effect in 2008 and has been reauthorized several times since as Americans continue to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Despite the real progress the economy has made since its near collapse in 2008, there are still 1.3 million fewer jobs than there were before the recession began, long-term unemployment as a percentage of the unemployed is 37 percent, near historic highs.
Failure to extend federal unemployment insurance would also hurt job growth throughout the nation, costing the economy 240,000 jobs, according to the White House Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA estimates that in Illinois alone, failing to extend the program will cost 13,345 jobs.
County | # OF PEOPLE LOSING COVERAGE DEC. 28 |
Adams | 258 |
Alexander | 33 |
Bond | 92 |
Boone | 328 |
Brown | 13 |
Bureau | 205 |
Calhoun | 27 |
Carroll | 50 |
Cass | 76 |
Champaign | 789 |
Christian | 233 |
Clark | 62 |
Clay | 62 |
Clinton | 158 |
Coles | 218 |
Cook | 38,260 |
Crawford | 92 |
Cumberland | 55 |
DeKalb | 538 |
DeWitt | 89 |
Douglas | 59 |
Du Page | 4,965 |
Edgar | 92 |
Edwards | 13 |
Effingham | 165 |
Fayette | 146 |
Ford | 52 |
Franklin | 349 |
Fulton | 243 |
Gallatin | 39 |
Greene | 68 |
Grundy | 320 |
Hamilton | 43 |
Hancock | 52 |
Hardin | 34 |
Henderson | 10 |
Henry | 226 |
Iroquois | 146 |
Jackson | 233 |
Jasper | 39 |
Jefferson | 227 |
Jersey | 130 |
Jo Daviess | 52 |
Johnson | 66 |
Kane | 3,086 |
Kankakee | 838 |
Kendall | 717 |
Knox | 281 |
La Salle | 933 |
Lake | 3,546 |
Lawrence | 54 |
Lee | 206 |
Livingston | 147 |
Logan | 134 |
Macon | 1,161 |
Macoupin | 291 |
Madison | 1,618 |
Marion | 231 |
Marshall | 71 |
Mason | 95 |
Massac | 48 |
McDonough | 87 |
McHenry | 1,642 |
McLean | 572 |
Menard | 55 |
Mercer | 40 |
Monroe | 88 |
Montgomery | 191 |
Morgan | 187 |
Moultrie | 58 |
Ogle | 326 |
Peoria | 1,546 |
Perry | 131 |
Piatt | 78 |
Pike | 59 |
Pope | 10 |
Pulaski | 34 |
Putnam | 44 |
Randolph | 152 |
Richland | 73 |
Rock Island | 515 |
Saint Clair | 1,667 |
Saline | 220 |
Sangamon | 1,059 |
Schuyler | 38 |
Scott | 26 |
Shelby | 113 |
Stark | 29 |
Stephenson | 337 |
Tazewell | 891 |
Union | 101 |
Vermilion | 533 |
Wabash | 19 |
Warren | 53 |
Washington | 56 |
Wayne | 65 |
White | 62 |
Whiteside | 351 |
Will | 4,474 |
Williamson | 440 |
Winnebago | 2,388 |
Woodford | 193 |
Total | 81,867 |