A new AFL-CIO report claims that 126,000 New Yorkers will lose unemployment benefits on December 31 unless Congress extends unemployment insurance again. Unions across the country are holding protests on Thursday, December 8 to get Congress to extend the unemployment benefits, including New York actions in Cortland, Goshen, Syracuse, and Utica. New York's unemployment rate for young people 20 to 24 years old is 13.8 percent, the report points out, and 14.5 percent for African Americans and 11.8 percent for Latinos.