Maybe Congress isn't ignoring the 99ers after all. In an interview with a local New York television station, which was flagged by the Michigan Messenger, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hinted that he was interested in establishing a fifth tier of emergency unemployment benefits later this year. "There are some people who go beyond the 99 weeks," he said last Friday, "and we're gonna try to do that next."

Of course, no Republicans in the U.S. Senate backed the latest unemployment insurance bill, which was less aggressive than Schumer's latest pet project. That makes the odds of passage long. But it's a development you can bet the newly-radicalized online unemployment community will follow.