Job seekers look over job opening fliers at the WorkSource exhibit LOS ANGELES - Inaction by Congress could result in millions of Americans entering the New Year with little or no means of financial support, according to a report released Wednesday.According to findings by The Century Foundation, a policy research institute, 12 million workers will be on one of two main CARES Act programs — Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) — when funding expires on Dec.
26.“This cutoff threatens to pull the rug out from under an economy that has already seen millions of workers lose their state unemployment benefits this fall,” the report read.Based on the number of people already on federal and.