Pennsylvania County-By-County Breakdown Shows the Harm of Not Extending Unemployment Insurance
If Congress fails to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program approximately 73,000 people in Pennsylvania will lose their insurance coverage immediately on Dec. 28, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. An additional 92,900 people in Pennsylvania 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 and 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 Pennsylvania alone, failing to extend the program will cost 15,200 jobs.
County | # of People On Federal Unemployment Insurance |
Adams County | 370 |
Allegheny County | 6,390 |
Armstrong County | 370 |
Beaver County | 930 |
Bedford County | 290 |
Berks County | 2,320 |
Blair County | 680 |
Bradford County | 260 |
Bucks County | 3,010 |
Butler County | 860 |
Cambria County | 910 |
Cameron County | 40 |
Carbon County | 440 |
Centre County | 340 |
Chester County | 1,630 |
Clarion County | 190 |
Clearfield County | 530 |
Clinton County | 260 |
Columbia County | 340 |
Crawford County | 430 |
Cumberland County | 940 |
Dauphin County | 1,550 |
Delaware County | 3,020 |
Elk County | 150 |
Erie County | 1,660 |
Fayette County | 810 |
Forest County | 20 |
Franklin County | 610 |
Fulton County | 70 |
Greene County | 150 |
Huntingdon County | 280 |
Indiana County | 550 |
Jefferson County | 240 |
Juniata County | 130 |
Lackawanna County | 1,530 |
Lancaster County | 2,080 |
Lawrence County | 520 |
Lebanon County | 650 |
Lehigh County | 2,140 |
Luzerne County | 2,580 |
Lycoming County | 840 |
McKean County | 210 |
Mercer County | 490 |
Mifflin County | 270 |
Monroe County | 930 |
Montgomery County | 3,650 |
Montour County | 60 |
Northampton County | 1,270 |
Northumberland County | 690 |
Perry County | 190 |
Philadelphia County | 11,910 |
Pike County | 180 |
Potter County | 100 |
Schuylkill County | 1,050 |
Snyder County | 150 |
Somerset County | 580 |
Sullivan County | 40 |
Susquehanna County | 150 |
Tioga County | 280 |
Union County | 140 |
Venango County | 370 |
Warren County | 170 |
Washington County | 1,090 |
Wayne County | 220 |
Westmoreland County | 1,970 |
Wyoming County | 160 |
York County | 2,100 |
Other | 3,800 |
TOTAL | 73,330 |