in partnershiprk with c.e.o.'s in our country to ake sure we are all working in partnership to give those who are long-term unemployed the opportunities possible to a chance at a et new job. we have been working together in a partnership with many of our the ry's top c.e.o.'s and president will, in the coming weeks, have more to say on that. the ly, we have to give basic support for those who are out there, who have worked in and are out there every ay working hard to find a new job. we as a country, we are a that has each other's back in hard times. , have all -- we have never over the last half century, cut unemployment benefits when long-term barely ment was even over half the rate that we have now.t now is not the time to start. what you today is. oday is the day that 1.3 million americans start going to their mailbox and find that the expected to get today is not there. that is a temporary life line for families who are employment, a m check that puts food on their gas in d perhaps the their car they need to