MI SR0172

Urges Congress to extend federal unemployment benefits and supplemental Medicaid funding to address economic hardship in Michigan and nationwide.

States that failure to extend unemployment benefits would immediately cut off more than 87,000 Michigan workers currently receiving unemployment checks and threaten over 408,000 workers projected to exhaust benefits by year's end.

Identifies a projected $500 million budget shortfall for Michigan resulting from loss of supplemental Medicaid funding during state budget constraints.

Argues that unemployment and Medicaid benefits function as economic stimulus through consumer spending on food, gasoline, heating fuel, and medical services.

Directs transmission of the resolution to the President of the United States Senate, Speaker of the House, and Michigan's congressional delegation.