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State Representative Ellen Cogen Lipton calls on the Senate to approve a plan that would extend unemployment benefits to Michigan's struggling workers at a press conference on Monday, Aug. 24, 2009, in Pontiac at the Oakland County Service Center. She was joined by State Representatives, from left, Tim Melton, Lisa Brown and Vincent Gregory. The legislators warned that nearly 100,000 Michigan workers, including close to 11,000 in Oakland County, will have their benefits cut if the Senate does not pass a plan that the House approved in May.