Date that Republicans used Senate rules to block an extension of the TANF Emergency Fund that directly subsidized jobs for the unemployed in government, nonprofits and small businesses: 9/28/2010
Date that the program expired: 9/30/2010
Amount of money the program had given states for job creation: $1 billion
Number of jobs the program created nationwide for unemployed parents and youth: nearly 250,000
Number of jobs the program created in the South*: 86,827
Level to which the unemployment rate in rural Perry County, Tenn. soared to after a local auto parts plant closed: 27 percent
Number of jobs that the emergency program funded in Perry County as part of a broader job-creation initiative: 220
Amount by which the initiative reduced Perry County's unemployment rate: 1/3
Number of employees hired by private companies in Mississippi through an innovative program funded by the emergency program: nearly 3,200
Unemployment rate nationally: 9.6 percent
Unemployment rate across the South: 9.3 percent
Unemployment rate in Wyoming, the home state of Republican Sen. Mike Enzi who led the effort to kill the emergency fund: 6.8 percent
Date on which Enzi called the fund an "important social safety net program": 9/28/2010
Date on which he said it was "not sound welfare policy": 9/29/2010
Number of consecutive months for which the national unemployment rate has topped 9 percent: 15
Number of Americans who are officially unemployed: about 15 million
Number of Americans working part-time but seeking full-time work: almost 9 million
Percent of the unemployed who've been out of work for more than six months: 42
Percent that have been jobless for more than six months: 23
* Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
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