MI SR0113

Memorializes Congress to restore the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program, which provided up to 47 additional weeks of unemployment benefits in high-unemployment states like Michigan but expired in 2013.

Notes that Michigan's unemployment rate was 8.4 percent (third-highest nationally) with state unemployment insurance reduced from 26 to 20 weeks of eligibility.

States that 37.7 percent of unemployed Americans (3.9 million) are long-term unemployed, the highest rate since records began, competing for jobs in an economy with 2 million fewer positions than December 2007.

Identifies that EUC expiration has already affected 44,000 Michigan residents and would eliminate benefits for an additional 86,500 Michigan residents by June 2014, while an estimated 310,000 jobs would be lost nationally due to reduced consumer demand.

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