There is no question that a lot of people have lost their jobs in this recession. It has been one of the worst in many decades. What we're trying to do here is fulfill a commitment that we made in our economic action plan last January, which was to track what was happening with the economy, what was happening to workers, and to provide targeted assistance to those most in need.
When we did the analysis of layoffs, people who had lost their jobs through no fault of their own, we found that there was a very significant spike, an extra 1.5%, in fact, who lost their jobs in January. By predating this bill to January and now fixing the date at January 4, we will be able to capture the vast majority of those people who are under this classification. Those are the ones who are quite frankly having a really tough time finding a job, because they've been in the workplace a long time. Many of them have limited portable skills, and many of them haven't had the necessity of looking for a job in quite some time. We are seeing that they are having difficulty finding new work.