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Federal unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed expired last weekend because Congress failed to reauthorize the program before the end of the year.

Next week, lawmakers are expected to introduce a "fast track" bill intended to speed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal through Congress. It will deny our elected representatives a chance to discuss and improve a dangerous trade deal that could have serious repercussions for workers' rights, and CWA and our allies are determined to stop it.

The budget agreement passed by both the House and Senate stops some of the senseless cuts required by sequestration and, at least for two years, means there won?t be a government shutdown over the issue.

A coalition of CWA and other activists convinced the New Jersey state legislature to stand tough on legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to be eligible for in-state and in-county rates.