Before leaving on holiday break, the House passed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (aka, the budget deal negotiated by Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray and her House counterpart Rep. Paul Ryan). The Senate is due to take it up shortly.

Our budget deal FAQ has a great overview of what’s in the deal, but it’s also important to note a few unresolved issues:

• The deal doesn't extend the emergency unemployment insurance scheduled to expire at the end of the year. This omission will cause over 1.3 million long-term unemployed Americans to lose benefits.
• Republicans and Democrats have yet to reach an agreement on the farm bill – the spending bill that sets spending levels for farm subsidies, crop insurance, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food stamps).

The graph below, originally published as part of our Thanksgiving SNAP series, shows how intertwined SNAP benefits and unemployment are.

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